Version Ten

11 September 2007

For those of you reading this in a RSS Reader, this is one of those posts that you really need to click through to the site and read.

Yes, I’ve redesigned again.

Imagine some party poppers going off, and balloons drifting down from the ceiling

I hope you all like it! I was getting slightly sick of the red, especially for the text, so I thought I’d make the move to black text with colour accents. As an aside, this is the first time this site has actually used black text – it’s always been either grey, white or red before.

Of course, when faced with trying to decide what colour to make the accents I was a bit stumped; I didn’t want to use red – I’m so over red – and blue would be the next choice, but it’s a bit over used, etc. So I cheated, reusing a device I last used a couple of designs ago (before the wave of red). This time it’s been helped along be judicious use of opacity filters, and transparent pngs. Also – for the first time, and I feel slightly bad about it – I’ve used a Firefox CSS hack to help fix it’s slightly rubbish type handling, which isn’t as good as Safari’s:

html:not([lang*=""]) p .commentlink  {
    padding-top: 5px;
}

This depends on Firefox’s specific – and different to Safari’s – interpretation of how to interpret CSS filters that don’t have any content. It’s a hack, but it also could well be quite useful. While on the topic of browser compatibility, it could well not work at the moment in Internet Explorer – I haven’t tested it yet, but I’m going to shortly so bare with me (and change your browser, for gods sake!).

Anyway, let me know if I’ve broken anything – I’ve only made one small html change to add the footer, but you never know…

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11 September 2007