Update 2: So I have seen a message from President Liza Rankin on why she, Director Evan Briggs, and Director Michelle Sarju backed out of this meeting. In a nutshell: - She says there was no organization to the meeting which is just not true. They had a moderator lined up and naturally the board members could have set parameters for what to discuss, length of meeting, etc. All that was fleshed out. - She also claimed that if the meeting was PTA sponsored, they needed to have liability insurance to use the school space. Hello? PTAs use school space all the time and know they have to have this insurance. - She seems to be worried about the Open Public Meetings law. Look, if she has a meeting in a school building on a non-personnel topic, it should be an open meeting. It appears that Rankin is trying, over and over, to narrow the window of access that parents have to Board members. She even says in her message - "...with decisions made in public." Hmmm - She also says that th
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WV is whooping it up because it monymet...?
I, too, tho', like the palatte of the main part.
looks fine - but so didn't the last 2, or 6.
BM
-like it simple
FWIW, I like the books. More to the point, the rust-colored type is easier to read than the most recent blue treatment.
tired eyes
I very much like the warm color combinations and the serif font—very readable.
SolvayGirl
Otherwise, I find it readable.
Mom in Cap Hill
CJ
I totally agree with Maureen that the original one also worked much smoother for scrolling & clicking, (this one is a little better than than 1st new one, but still has to "reload" and still catches & hesitiates when scrolling which really drives me crazy- I don't have the same problem on other blogs or websites). I actually now find myself skipping over the main text and going right to comments (which has the old format), so that I then can click of "show original post" and it will be in the old zippy & fast format & easier to read!
The only parts that were lacking originally were the "functional" features that other blogs offered (ie tabs on top leading to resources, more selections along the right side).
Thanks for all your efforts to try the new system- I'm sure it will all shake out eventually.
-Regular Reader
If you change nothing else, please, please, please change the font back to sans serif.
Here's a thought on the books. I like them, but I also think they're "too strong", especially when scrolling. So I did a little mock-up desaturation (washing out) experiment, and I think it's a big improvement. Not sure who is doing this part for you, but it's as simple as taking the current background image and putting a Photoshop layer on top of it that's pure white at a 40-50% opacity. Give it a try!
I love books. A lot...But, whew, for my taste it's way too busy to read.
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IF we could each selects some titles to put on the spines, I'd be convinced to stick with it!
You do realize that if the books had titles the whole thing would be that much more busy, right?! ;-)
-- Ivan Weiss
Adding titles would be even busier, yes, but then we could all put our favorite titles up there, which would be fun! But....that would be even busier, yikes!
Maybe instead we can have a thread on favorite titles, add those onto the book spines pic, then relegate the bookshelf to a separate thread that people could click on if they want to see what we like to read!
CT
I will still consider moving us to Wordpress but it entails a lot more work and I was hoping to keep it simple.
I will probably go serif; my book design work says it is easier to read than sans serif (but there's always disagreement). At least it's not Comic Sans.
The marble is lovely. I think the new look is quite good now.
SolvayGirl
But your blog is great regardless.
-Happy Halloween
-parent
WV: supcoma
By the way, the colors of the Google Calendar widget can be changed to match the new blog colors.
...its super painful to try to use!
I like the colors and the fonts.
Books? What books? The books do not show on the Seattle public library computers.
-JC.
~~CE
This BLOG is made for reading.