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This blog is simply the best idea I've seen since walking into Ford 150 with Spencey B on the second day of Spring semester 06! Great job Shanti!
Posted by: Anthony Schwab | November 14, 2006 2:43 AM
Shanti, I applaud and thank you for your efforts, but as a fellow web designer, I am forced to say that translucent PNGs placed over animated backdrops make me die a little bit inside. And the dancing lights are just enough to distract me from the small, tightly-spaced, serif font that all the content is presented in.
Also, a friend of mine owns a web design/hosting company. If you would like a (free) way to get this off of your personal umn webspace, let me know, I'd be happy to help out.
And finally, www.umpds.org redirects here, but plain umpds.org still goes to blogspot. By design or not, this behavior is strange.
Posted by: Dan | November 15, 2006 12:35 AM
I think we need flaming skull gifs and midi files in the background that you can't turn off, personally.
Posted by: Anthony | November 15, 2006 8:49 PM
Dan, you should see some of the horridly clashing color schemes I had on this site before anyone was visiting. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/poth0018/umpds/blog/UM%20Pixies.gif
is a toned-down version of the original background.
Posted by: Shanti Pothapragada | November 15, 2006 10:24 PM
Shanti, the post thing isn't working!
Posted by: Michelle | November 28, 2006 12:17 AM
Should be at least sort of working now. They changed the URL structure or something; it still seems a little glitchy. So the current link is to blog.lib.umn.edu, which should let you choose any umn blog that you're a registered author for. Email me if it still doesn't work.
Posted by: Shanti | December 14, 2006 5:22 AM
You spell "debate" wrong on the left sidebar. That doesn't look so good for a debate team. You should really fix that.
Posted by: Richard Hay | March 28, 2007 4:32 PM