Charly Sistovaris <[email protected]> wrote: incomparably better. design is extremely important to the first perception > you get on content. shiny & beautiful isn't superfluous, but old & ugly > html like you had (sorry for being harsh) . . .
That was deliberate. It is the aggressively unfashionable Dibert-style I-buy-my-wardrobe-at-Target school of design. It is modeled on things like arxiv.org. Lately they have given in and gone to a WordPress format: http://arxiv.org/ The Wayback machine does not show their older format. I finally found a Theme I can live with: http://demo.studiopress.com/genesis/ I may go hog-wild and substitute blue or aqua for the gray theme on the menu. This company has really good Theme and other templates. Just what you need without stuff you don't need. I tried a dozen others including free ones and commercial samples (with features turned off). Most of them are as ugly internally as they are externally. I do not mind rococo designs or flashy graphics but they get in the way of a serious purpose. They are fine in web sites such as these (showcased by this company): http://www.theeyecandyblog.com/ http://www.cbhutch.com/ I am re-organizing the menus and screens as I do this. That's more work than setting up the WordPress structure. - Jed
