The New Old New Thing

The New Old New Thing

Date:	December 2, 2003 / year-entry #148
Tags:	other
Orig Link:	https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031202-00/?p=41643
Comments:	10
Summary:	This is the (future) new home of The Old New Thing. Just kicking the tires right now.

This is the (future) new home of The Old New Thing. Just kicking the tires right now.

Comments (10)

Victor Garcia Aprea says:

December 2, 2003 at 2:15 pm

Welcome Raymond, nice to have you around here!
John says:

December 15, 2003 at 6:31 pm

Cool, so this is the "New" New Old New Thing!
geraldH says:

December 16, 2003 at 3:28 am

What was wrong with the other site? Just the fact that it was hosted on a dotNet-Blog server?
Raymond Chen says:

December 16, 2003 at 8:19 am

The blogs.gotdotnet.com site was a temporary solution from the start. The people who ran it had been investigating more permanent solutions (one that would scale with the increasing blog load on gotdotnet) and they selected weblogs.asp.net as the new blog host.
(6) says:

December 16, 2003 at 6:03 pm

Raymond,

I’m finding it quite hard reading the new blogs. All content seems to merge in together (comments and blog entry, time/date and comments). Is there anything you can do? Indent the comments perhaps?

Thanks.
Michael C. says:

December 17, 2003 at 3:12 am

Re: Hard-to-seperate comments – Looks to me like you can just style in some padding- or margin-top and perhaps a border-top to the H4, unless the H4 tag is widely used elsewhere.
Pramod Biligiri S says:

December 17, 2003 at 7:11 am

Hey..this new blog looks much better organised! Cool!
Raymond Chen says:

December 17, 2003 at 8:00 am

I tried adding a border-top to the H4 but it looked awful. I’ll keep tinkering…
Michael C. says:

December 17, 2003 at 10:48 am

Well, this is better, but the H4 line still looks like it could belong to either the section above it or below it… perhaps some added margin to the H4 or the p?
Raymond Chen says:

December 17, 2003 at 10:52 am

Okay I tinkered with it some more – I think this is pretty close to the old look now.

Comments are closed.

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