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Monday, December 12, 2005

Jeffyfish, etc. Templates

I'd like to discuss four Blog Templates in this posting.

Names: Jellyfish, Simple II, Herbert, Sand Dollar
Author: Jason Sutter

All four Templates can be considered as a class by themselves. What sets them apart from the others is the Templates' ability to wrap the text to fit different window widths in both the main body and the side bar, and perhaps this is why Jellyfish is so named. I think this design is very good for text oriented Blogs, because it enables the user to easily view the contents. With the other types of templates, when the Blog window is resized to a narrower one, then a horizontal scroll bar will appear on the bottom of the screen.

Personally, I find the use of colour for these four Templates to be less soothing than the Tic Tac design, especially for Herbert. I prefer the red colour in Herbert to be replaced by the brown colour that is used in the background of the Sand Dollar Title bar.

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