Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
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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.
Followed by:
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.