Title: scribble, scribble, scribble… Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # scribble, scribble, scribble… * [scribbler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribbler/) * (@scribbler) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/) * A blog dedicated to essays, narrative journalism, and the print work of the proprietor, Dale Keiger. Running since 2002, but newly tweaked and repurposed. Would value any critique. Thank you. * Dale * [http://www.dalekeiger.com](http://www.dalekeiger.com) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309294) * We don’t really comment on the content of the blogs here. As for the look: the huge bold fonts in the post/article content area seem very odd… The fonts of the text are bigger than the post titles! Is that intentional? * Thread Starter [scribbler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribbler/) * (@scribbler) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309422) * Doesn’t display that way in any of the six browsers I use to check it. Don’t understand that. * Dale * [sonria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sonria/) * (@sonria) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309703) * I’m seeing it in Firefox. * It looks like there may be a missing `` tag somewhere on your theme’s index. php. Have you checked for that? * [anonym](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anonym/) * (@anonym) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309715) * The font in the content part is far too big. Reading three words per line is annoying. * The statcounter counter looks awful. Change it, make it invisible; do something. * The google ad could be better integrated. Actually, both these elements really stand out, in a bad way. * All in all, the site confuses me, it doesn’t have an appearant structure and feels random. Especially the right column. * I still like it though! * Thread Starter [scribbler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribbler/) * (@scribbler) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309736) * sonria: * You may be right about the tag. I’m searching. I can’t understand why, on two different machines, my browsers didn’t display what you’re seeing, but I believe you. * I think I found a few. How does the page display now? * Thread Starter [scribbler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribbler/) * (@scribbler) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309747) * Page now validates for xhtml transitional, which I hope clears up any problems. Now to work on the CSS. * [sonria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sonria/) * (@sonria) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309812) * Hi Scribbler, yes, it looks fine to me now. I have noticed that Firefox and IE treat missing `
` tags differently. * [ilione](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilione/) * (@ilione) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309816) * I’d say that’s very appropriate for writing content. Very spacious and not detracting from the words. I’m working on something simplistic myself for the same reasons. * Great job! :o) * x * Thread Starter [scribbler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribbler/) * (@scribbler) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309820) * Thanks for alerting me to the problem and the cause, sonria. I really had no idea the page was displaying poorly. Damn those end tags! * Thank you for the compliment, Ilione. To the extent that a writer can pretend to a design aesthetic, I wanted something clean, uncluttered, with white space and a basic color scheme. The red initial caps are meant to resemble rubrics, something I picked up from study of medieval books of hours. I’ve thought about switching to san-serif type because it’s nice and clean in electronic display, but I like the idea of a serif typeface as a link to classical print. Any opinions? * Thanks again, everyone. * [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/) * (@coolmann) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309822) * nice template, simple and clean. about “size”, I’m checking your site with FF and IE, and it looks fine now. the feeling for me is: “well organized” content 🙂 Just a small note: thr FONT tag is deprecated, use SPAN 🙂 * [ilione](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilione/) * (@ilione) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309826) * I like the red starts a lot! Your font looks good in serif I think, it does add a touch of class :o) * x * Thread Starter [scribbler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribbler/) * (@scribbler) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309844) * coolmann: Sorry, don’t understand. Deprecated? SPAN? (Exceeding my knowledge of XHTML, which doesn’t take long…) * Dale * [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/) * (@coolmann) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309864) * scribbler: ehm, sorry for being so ambiguous 🙂 well, if you want know more, read this: [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_font.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_font.asp) * I told you this since you are using the FONT tag in your theme, for increasing size of first letter in each article. Instead, you could try using the SPAN tag to do that 🙂 sorry for my late reply, too * [vnbpaul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vnbpaul/) * (@vnbpaul) * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309874) * Maybe you’ve already thought of this, but if your quotes (in the blockquote tag) are short the background image you style them with won’t display entirely — meaning you’ll get something like QUOT or QU … in the grey letters that run vertically down the left/top side. * Thread Starter [scribbler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribbler/) * (@scribbler) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309902) * vnbPaul: Yes, I’m aware of it. When I know I’m going to have a short quote, I don’t use the * > tag. Thanks. * Dale Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) The topic ‘scribble, scribble, scribble…’ is closed to new replies. * 15 replies * 7 participants * Last reply from: [scribbler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribbler/) * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scribble-scribble-scribble/#post-309902) * Status: not a support question ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics