The sidebar can be consider as important as the post body of a blog. The sidebar holds important information, internal or external links. It is the opposite of the post area while holding some of it’s features. The post area is dynamic, meaning that the information is constantly flowing, in comparison with the more static use of the sidebar. The sidebar area is used to keep some information static while serves as a feed for certain other applications.
At the moment I am using this area for both types of information. I will keep some important links to other pages that showcase my work, a twitter feed and links to other peoples websites. In the future, depending on the use of this blog, I might need archiving widgets, in order to make access of information easier, as it will be more than today. I explain more about the widgets I am using, on this post.
Starting with dimension and font. I increased the width as I had already increased the #wrapper width. The font order was changed. Helvetica is first. The line-height, which is the gap between lines of text was decreased from 160% to 125%. I added a border to the right of the sidebar with a fixed width of 8 pixels and colour of #f1f1f1 to blend with other borders. At the end bottom end of this border I added a radius of 18 pixels, and a border at the bottom of 1 pixel and the same colour. The two borders blend and create a nice rounded corner. I need to add the browser-specific radii properties for the just to be sure it’s compatible.
As I described in a previous post about the functions of this theme, apart from changing the specific symbol of this function, I changed its CSS property. Margin (left) had a value of -15 pixels which made the symbols float between the body and the sidebar. By setting this to -4 pixels it’s aligned with the rest elements of the sidebar.
For the sidebar’s link styles I changed the tag #sidebar with selectors :hover :focus and :active. The text-decoration was underline and I changed to none and the colour was #000, which I changed to #1c9bdc.
This way the links will be visible on hover by changing colour instead of underline.
Joseph Kesisoglou 