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Sunday, March 30th 2008
If you’ve been here before you might have noticed the new design. I got inspired yesterday and thought I should have one if those hip dark wallpaper pattern inspired blog designs.
If you still see my old default design, the Tech Blue
, just click Dark Pattern
at the top of the page.
I started off by finding a suitable pattern for the background. I found this one:
… at theinspirationgallery.com, inverted it and used curves to make the pattern a dark grey.
To increase the readability I added a see-through (40 % opaque) black to the main section using the following CSS3 declaration:
This is what it should look like:
So far, only Firefox 3 and Safari 3 have support for semi-transparent colours (RGBA/HSLA), but I think the text is fairly readable even if you don’t get the darker background. Hopefully the number of Firefox 3 users will increase to about 20 % when it is released this summer, thanks to the auto-update feature of Firefox 2.
I’ve also changed the font to Lucida Sans Unicode (Lucida Grande on the mac), inspired by John Lilly’s blog. I decided to use it for both titles and text.
And here’s what a quote looks like:
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams
Overall I’m really pleased with the new look. Do shout if you find any annoying bugs.