The new look for Poo-Poo Platter is now up and running. I started with the Mallow theme from Matthew and proceeded to hack through the CSS and PHP files. There were only a few hiccups along the way (mostly CSS-related layout issues), but I think I’ve got things under control.
With the new theme comes a new header image. I took the photo above earlier this evening and decided to do some Photoshop voodoo to spice it up for the blog. I originally tried to use the caution sign as part of the header image, but I couldn’t find a decent composition. As I was trying different cropping variations, I happened upon a nice crop of the bent metal bar. I then added some text, the space invader image, and did some degrading of the custom elements. Nothing fancy, but I like it.
Now that it is officially summer, I decided to go with brighter, more vibrant colors. Lots of red, yellow, and light shades of gray now adorn the blog. I’ve also added navigation tabs under the header image to make my personal links easier to find. The sidebar content remains the same.
The site is also slightly wider than the previous version. This allows me to use bigger header images (apologies to all you 56k-ers)and show wider blocks of text in the content area for less scrolling. I can also now leave my Flickr images at their default widths of 500 pixels instead of manually adjusting HTML values to 400 pixels wide (the previous template was rather narrow). That just means less work on my part when I link to images in my photostream.
The only bug that I’m aware of is the Category dropdown menu does not work properly in Internet Explorer. Frankly, I could care less. The site looks fine in Safari and Firefox, and that’s all I’m supporting. Also, IE for OS X is dead, so there’s no reason for me to support it anymore.
Now that I have the new look for my blog up and running, I should really consider revamping my regular site. It really needs it…
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Nice, Danny. I like it.