Grand Theft Blizzog

Well I couldn’t wait for .Text to come out with their new release, so I just decided to do a new skin now and worry about the new functionality later.  I really like this new design and I hope you do too.  There are still some things I need to work out, as funky HTML will mess up the alignment sometimes.  I had to ditch my earlier post with the HTML table that had specs for my new PC on it because it was screwing stuff up.  But for the most part I’m pretty happy with this.

I’m not really talented enough from a graphic design standpoint to have come up with this design myself.  I modified one of the skins from the newly re-designed Blogger - a free service which some of you should sign up for, by the way, so I can read your blog for a change - called No. 897.  I thought it was pretty cool so I started with it and I modified it.  I basically changed the white border to black and used primary colors instead of the pastels.  I also used a cool font that I downloaded a few months ago to make my new logo.  I call this skin “Grand Theft Blizzog” because it reminds me of the mod art used in the Grand Theft Auto game series.

Look around and kick the tires and let me know what you think.  I’ve tested this on IE 6 and the latest release of Firefox.  For some reason the fonts render a size smaller in Firefox and I couldn’t get the two to match up, but you can rock some Ctrl-+ action to get the font size up a notch until I figure it out.  I have changed the way that comments are laid out on the post pages because I was getting sick of that table.  AG has already told me that she doesn’t like the new comments layout because I ditched the alternating colors.  She thought it made them easier to read.  I like it how it is now, but if you guys tell me you hate it too then I’ll change it.

I also added a place holder in the little light-blue thinger up there to put a sub-title for the site.  .Text supports it but I didn’t use it in my old skin.  Eventually I’ll probably replace it with a quote-of-the-day module or something, but for right now I have to enter the text in by hand on the .Text admin module.  I’ll change it around when I feel like it until then.

That’s it from here for now.  I need to go to bed.  Please let me know what you think.  I spent a lot of time on this over the past few days and would appreciate any feedback - positive or negative - that you might have.

Thanks!