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3.9.2003 Back in the saddle After a bit of a creative hiatus, I'm back to blogskinning again, for the time being anyway. Botanika is a skin that I had completed in January, but for some reason or other I never got around to testing it on Windows and so I never posted it. Sporto is a quick-and-dirty, where I learned to finally control border patterns and colors on tables. Maybe I'm moving more toward table-based design rather than CSS? Posted by Ellen E at 1:29 PM 1.4.2003 Egoboo! You know you've arrived when you click on a random blog on Blogger's update list and they're using one of your designs! Whee. Posted by Ellen E at 10:45 AM 1.3.2003 Bride of Frankenblog New blog design for the day: Circle Gets the Square. This isn't really a Frankenblog because it's all CSS, but I'm surprised it works at all. But it works on IE 5 for Mac, IE 6 for Windows XP, and Netscape 6 for Windows. I think. (Of course, on Netscape 4.7 for Mac, it looks like shite. I have no idea what it looks like on any 21st century versions of Netscape for Mac because my latest download of it died. Boo hoo.) Design notes: I put in the little plus signs just to hopefully please people. People seem to want little gnirtles and squits and dingbatty type things in their blogs. They don't want them too plain. And wow, maybe imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Oh, and in the end, I changed the Personal Colors skin all the way over to tables. I guess I just didn't understand tables. How sad is that? Posted by Ellen E at 8:53 PM 12.29.2002 Frankenblog I have been living dangerously with designs lately (and, I suspect, bad and sloppy code), trying to combine tables and CSS. Well, you learn by doing. The skin I posted yesterday (Personal Colors) was fairly simple to do, but because tables impose a one-pixel border between cells whether you want them to or not, I did the upper part of the layout in CSS, and the blog part as a table, to achieve the effect where the medium-purple top bar is flush with the table (hence, no one-pixel white space - the large white space between the banner and the violet bar, however, was intentional.) There has to be a better way of doing this - I want what I want, when I want it! If not for the threat of pesky white space between cells, I could have done the whole skin simply as a table. BTW, the graphic in the Personal Colors blog is of a Clearly Canadian blackberry soda bottle as seen from the inside. Having a very small camera is cool! I am also finding that pale violet is a wonderful color to work with on a computer monitor. It functions as a neutral color that is more lively than gray, and less cliched than blue. This is another blog I did the other day that uses violet. Posted by Ellen E at 11:33 AM 12.19.2002 More tinkering... Another skin that didn't turn out as originally envisioned: Zen Malachite. This skin was supposed to be white. It also originally had a landscape image. It was supposed to be earth-toney, not 40 shades of green. Green is a very hard color to work with and always needs to be balanced or grounded against something else (a neutral or a complement), so I've broken a ton of color rules in favor of finding the perfect balance. I don't think people like green blogs, but oh well. Posted by Ellen E at 10:31 PM Another customer DataAngel is using Cobalt at her website, fotoangel.net. And if I may toot my own horn, I also have a photography website (well, sorta) at 20 Shots to Glory. In case anyone's wondering, the generic photos that come with the Cobalt skin are of my office, and the ones with the Cowboy skin are of N.Y. Route 8 and the Glimmerglass Opera House. Posted by Ellen E at 6:24 PM 12.11.2002 Just wanted you to know... Just wanted you to know that I've been being a good girl and taking my cough syrup. And that from up here, you all look like ants. Posted by Ellen E at 1:05 PM 12.9.2002 Design idea I think I need to next design a blog based on the distinctive color of yorked-up bronchial phlegm: a soft, utterly bland gray-yellow-green color. This blog will also contain bright orange highlights (link colors?) in honor of controlled substances everywhere (inspired by my cough medicine). And the menu bar will just keep coming up, no matter how much you try to scroll down. Posted by Ellen E at 5:42 PM |