Friday, March 29, AD 2024 3:47am

Our New Look, The Changes Explained

If you haven’t noticed we have made some changes to The American Catholic website, mostly aesthetic.

The previous version was messy and clunky.  I take responsibility for that.  I was using Themler, a new CMS Creator tool that I never used and was annoyed with the slow changes it was making.

I got distracted and left the mess alone for too long.

So now I threw away Themler and decided to do it old school using my ancient programming skills in CSS.  The 12-hour gap of the website being down was my fault.  I messed around with a PHP file that I wasn’t supposed to touch.

Well, back to now.

What is different. . .

  1.  I’m using a powder blue and an Indian red for colors and IM Fell English Caps for the title and Alegreya Small Caps for the tag line.
  2. I changed the Cross and Eagle as well.  I only changed the color for the cross from red to Indian red.  The Eagle is the same, but I changed the blue and red to powder blue and Indian red.
  3. The background to the header is Indian red and the background for the body is powder blue.  The posts are excerpted so you will have to click on ‘Continue Reading’ to read the rest.
  4. There is now a featured image with the excerpt.
  5. One other change and it could be a major change depending on people’s viewpoints, but I changed the default avatar from a randomly generated abstract pic to a smiling and laughing Pope Francis.  If you want something else, go to Gravatar and create your own.  It’s free and easy to do.  Here is the link:  http://en.gravatar.com/

Please leave me any feedback either praising or with constructive criticism.

And yes, I will return to writing for The American Catholic.

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Phillip
Phillip
Saturday, August 26, AD 2017 7:16pm

Let me see how it works.

Phillip
Phillip
Saturday, August 26, AD 2017 7:17pm

I guess you get a laughing Pope Francis if you don’t have another symbol. I don’t like it. :0

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Sunday, August 27, AD 2017 4:00am

I like it!
The rays, graces and protection coming from the Cross. Our Hope is not found in man. It’s found only in Christ. Our hope for our country and our families.
Great job!

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Sunday, August 27, AD 2017 8:11am

Thanks for the update, Tito. Quaeritur: can you restore auto email notifications for comments on posts? Tibi multas gratias ago.

Foxfier
Admin
Monday, August 28, AD 2017 7:19pm

Yay!

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