With the layout of the new Twitter page come new dimensions, new behaviors, and new ways of sneaking artwork-based information about yourself out from behind Twitter’s new content box.
There are four measurements we can make right off the bat:
- A 42-pixel-high black bar across the top, containing Twitter’s logo, a search box, and navigation menu. Not customizable.
- A 21-pixel-high top margin between the black bar and the two-part content box. The background begins at the first pixel beneath it.
- A 42-pixel-wide left margin between the content box and the edge of the window.
- The left side of said content box, a fixed 540 pixels wide. It has an opaque white background, and contains the tweet-stream.
- The right side of the same box, which varies in width from 380 to 500 pixels, as your visitor widens or narrows the browser window. The color is your choice and about 30% transparent, and contains a mini-avatar, tweet stats, Following and Followers, and a few other links. This content stops about 280 pixels from the bottom of the black bar. Read More
On a scale of difficulty — one being checking email, ten being binary machine language — to me, WordPress is maybe a four, and trending downwards. It’s taken me a while to realize that, from my viewpoint as a freshman in the app. And by WordPress, I mean knowing enough HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL to make a living at it. Which is my goal.
Before I knew I wanted to do the above, but had an idea for a blog, I only took the WordPress.org plunge once I knew I could make an early end-run around the coding by buying a framework theme: first Thesis, then about a year later (for reasons I won’t get into here), Headway. Read More
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