Fuddland
I’m simultaneously getting a bit more confident in my CSS and a bit bored with my current design, so I thought I’d spice things up with a couple of oh-so-fashionable alternate stylesheets.
First up [but second designed] is a nice warm theme I’ve cleverly entitled “Warm”, which I kept fairly simple to give IE 6 a fighting chance at rendering it without too many problems; no dropdown menus, just a traditional sidebar with the navigation links, and only two images used in the whole design. I took some advice from a nice-looking weblog I came across and recycled the background image to make the blockquote backgrounds a bit more interesting, and in the process discovered what must be the strangest IE bug yet: Magik Creeping Text.
“Harps” has a darker, monochromatic look and the dropdown menus are back, but below the banner image this time. You may recognise the background from a photo I took at the very end of last year. In my continued efforts to promote alternative, better browers, and due to heavy use of transparent PNGs and the fact that the programmers apparently completely misunderstood what position: fixed means for background images, this style looks rubbish in IE, so I wouldn’t bother using this one [unless, for some reason, you want to make this site look terrible, in which case you want to try it in IE 5.5!].
If your browser supports alternate stylesheets you can have a quick look at the new ones to see what you think, but to make a more permanent change you’ll need cookies enabled and the stylesheet switcher.
Feedback/bug reports welcome!
Comments
Daisy | 2004 / 05 / 22 – 00:21
Mmmm, I’ve switched to warm. You’re right, Harps was a little broken in IE6.
David | 2004 / 05 / 22 – 15:17
Re #1: Warm is my stylesheet of choice at the moment too. :) So you weren’t persuaded to try Opera or Firefox to see how Harps should really look [and for a better browsing experience in general]?
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