I like the family-friendly playfulness of this design. The permalinks show up a little funky in Safari, so there may be a little bit of browser compatibility work to do.
Another awesome design. Insanely creative approach in the way the standard columns are completely obliterated. You achieve a really nice effect that is really true to the theme of the style. Very, very cool indeed.
Speaking personally, the only thing that breaks from the theme is the use of scroll bars. Anyway to eliminate those? or at least de-emphasize them?
I also notice how much the scroll bars stand out, but I don't think there's anything intelligent I can do with them. Here's the thought process I went through.
- Use overflow: hidden to simply hide any text that falls outside the note paper. That certainly won't make people happy! Also, if you decide to increase the text size in your browser, that's even more text that simply disappears. Not good.
- Make the paper note bigger. But how big is big enough? And at what point does a big piece of note paper make the theme feel less like a bulletin board? Additionally, what happens when somebody decides to write an even bigger entry body? Do I hide or scroll text then? Even so, I think the design compromise becomes too large from this option.
- IE supports colored scroll bars--which could definitely help make them blend better... but it's IE, and the theme breaks pretty badly in IE--so why bother?
So, I just decided to stick with scrolling note paper, even though it deviates from the theme a little. I had been thinking that in the theme description I need to add a note, "Bulletin Board will work best with short Entry Body text, so that the items on the Main Index page don't sroll," but I forgot about it!
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