Agreed. Thanks for changing it back, Nathan! It wasn’t even loading fully for me.
Take Cover
10 years ago
This works fine for me too.
(Curious how I misremembered it even after like a single day: I could have sworn there was a column on both sides! I don’t remember the black vertical borders or the ‘rough drywall’ texture background either.)
For those who missed it, the temporary version had thumbnails of the covers in a gallery format, click on one to see the entry.
I’ll be honest: this (the old) version allows me the initial “that’s not too bad” … scroll down … “Oh, That’s lousy” revelation that make a true lousy book cover experience.
Nathan, sorry I was so “grouse-y” about the two templates, but the second one literally didn’t work for me. I couldn’t navigate by clicking. I ended up hovering over the thumbnails, and MANUALLY typing the url, to go from A to b. I meant what I said. I will cheerfully donate a commercial WP theme. Just pick one that has a gallery-blog type layout. My gift to you, for giving us all such enjoyment over the years. Email me, bruv.
Chrome. I would probably not have said anything, if I’d been able to get it to work. Well..okay, that’s likely a fib. I didn’t love it, it was visually confusing to me. But seriously, I had to hover over each cover on the home page, get the url, and then manually type it. The next-previous cover mechanism was flakey, too. I’m on a Lenovo Yoga Thinkpad Pro, running Win8, w/Chrome.
HTH. Nathan, seriously, having suffered through redoing my own website, top-bottom (even including a CMS change), for a YEAR, I certainly have no desire to torture you. I’m happy to assist if I can and may. 🙂
Next-previous worked for me, that was the first thing I checked. I’m also on Thinkpad Yoga, but running Windows 10. But I can’t say I liked the theme. It was better than the previous one, which, IIRC didn’t even have next-previous, plus the menu was broken, but it wasn’t all that pretty. But I don’t like this one either. It’s very functional, but it feels so… unsophisticated.
Catie
10 years ago
Also, is it me, or the banner doesn’t lead to home page anymore?
That was the compromise I made in taking out the little “stutter” at the bottom of the header image. Instead, I just put a “Home” link at the left of the header menu.
You guys are boring. I was rather looking forward to the design change. A successful design change.
Sydney Blackburn
10 years ago
Didn’t there used to be a search function? I don’t want to submit a lousy book cover if it’s already been featured here, but without a search function…?
That’s great news, Nathan. I, for one, have never had a problem with your original theme. Thanks for restoring it.
I quite like this theme, I find it very easy to read.
Agreed. Thanks for changing it back, Nathan! It wasn’t even loading fully for me.
This works fine for me too.
(Curious how I misremembered it even after like a single day: I could have sworn there was a column on both sides! I don’t remember the black vertical borders or the ‘rough drywall’ texture background either.)
That’s the one thing I tweaked when I restored it. The original background was a pattern of small blue-gray tiles.
Good to know at least one third of my so-called memory is still intact!
I guess I really missed something!
🙁
For those who missed it, the temporary version had thumbnails of the covers in a gallery format, click on one to see the entry.
I’ll be honest: this (the old) version allows me the initial “that’s not too bad” … scroll down … “Oh, That’s lousy” revelation that make a true lousy book cover experience.
Hi:
Nathan, sorry I was so “grouse-y” about the two templates, but the second one literally didn’t work for me. I couldn’t navigate by clicking. I ended up hovering over the thumbnails, and MANUALLY typing the url, to go from A to b. I meant what I said. I will cheerfully donate a commercial WP theme. Just pick one that has a gallery-blog type layout. My gift to you, for giving us all such enjoyment over the years. Email me, bruv.
Funny, it worked for me. What browser were you using? I’m on Chrome.
Chrome. I would probably not have said anything, if I’d been able to get it to work. Well..okay, that’s likely a fib. I didn’t love it, it was visually confusing to me. But seriously, I had to hover over each cover on the home page, get the url, and then manually type it. The next-previous cover mechanism was flakey, too. I’m on a Lenovo Yoga Thinkpad Pro, running Win8, w/Chrome.
HTH. Nathan, seriously, having suffered through redoing my own website, top-bottom (even including a CMS change), for a YEAR, I certainly have no desire to torture you. I’m happy to assist if I can and may. 🙂
Next-previous worked for me, that was the first thing I checked. I’m also on Thinkpad Yoga, but running Windows 10. But I can’t say I liked the theme. It was better than the previous one, which, IIRC didn’t even have next-previous, plus the menu was broken, but it wasn’t all that pretty. But I don’t like this one either. It’s very functional, but it feels so… unsophisticated.
Also, is it me, or the banner doesn’t lead to home page anymore?
Yeah, I noticed that too…
That was the compromise I made in taking out the little “stutter” at the bottom of the header image. Instead, I just put a “Home” link at the left of the header menu.
Home. Perfect. Thank you.
Thank God. I thought it was me (on the Home thing).
Yay! Everything’s back to normal. 🙂
You guys are boring. I was rather looking forward to the design change. A successful design change.
Didn’t there used to be a search function? I don’t want to submit a lousy book cover if it’s already been featured here, but without a search function…?
Whoops! Yeah, that’s pretty important. Hold on…
Whoot! Thanks!