Is Bigger Better?
Inspired by the “big” layout in The Unseasoned Wok, I figured I’d see what Pulpconnection would look like if I spaced things out. So I went from a three-column layout to two columns.
The main column when from 540 pixels to 680 pixels wide and the sidebar went from 195 pixels to 260 pixels. The primary reason for the main column size is to accommodate wide aspect ratio videos on YouTube (see the Christina Perri Breaking Dawn post) and the medium-size image setting in WordPress.
More playing around and tweaking for sure, but it does seem like bigger is indeed better.
Update: Expanded the sidebar to 300px. Might try for 2 columns in this single column for the Powered By graphics.
October 28, 2011 @ 12:54 pm
Note to self: 300px sidebar is kind of too wide. Ad could be bigger, tag cloud needs bigger fonts, PostRank looks better longer (not wider)
October 28, 2011 @ 12:55 pm
Note to self: Recent comments can have more characters. Twitter updates looks fine. Need to figure out placement of sidebar and footer widgets.
October 29, 2011 @ 9:17 pm
Changed comment length from 60 to 80 characters, maybe 70 instead.
October 29, 2011 @ 9:19 pm
Tag cloud font changed from 8 to 10 pt minimum.