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October 05, 2003

My Liking For CSS Continues

I wasn't kidding when I said how handy CSS is in an earlier post. This time I went and totally re-worked the forums. The entire layout and design is now handled by CSS. If you were around for my Brain Farts 2.0 entry then you already know I don't give a shit if your browser doesn't support CSS. When I'm finally happy with the appearance and done tinkering with the design I'll post an image so you'll know if your browser is rendering it properly or not. If not then you need to upgrade to a modern, standards compliant browser already. Now, with a CSS based design it does open the door to allowing forum users to select their own style. But that would entail even more work getting graphics to match each and every style if we were to do that. And since the forums share the same basic color scheme as the rest of the site I would never allow it anyway. The use of CSS also opens up more customization options for the look of the forums themselves.(For example the new quote blocks and brushed metal textures.) As I've said before, if you don't utilize CSS then you should begin doing so. It may be a bitch to switch over but once you do it is SO worth it. Stay tuned to see what is next on the design block.

Please leave any comments and suggestions you might have below. I'm particularly interested in hearing what you think of the new changes and any critiques you might have to make it better.

Update: Here is the pic for how the forums should render.

Posted by Trekkie at October 5, 2003 06:40 PM

Comments

Update the main page to match the forums now =)

Posted by: Fink at October 6, 2003 04:11 PM

Also, the forum bg image doesn't match with the forum theme.

It does work here, but this theme is darker.

Posted by: Fink at October 6, 2003 04:12 PM

It looks pretty good, I was getting bored with they way it looked.

Posted by: Dew at October 6, 2003 05:24 PM

The forum background has been updated. The responses so far are overwhelmingly positive. I've also changed the background for the blog posts, I'm surprised no one has noticed. The main site on the other hand will stay as is.

Posted by: Trekkie at October 6, 2003 08:30 PM

Perhaps no one has noticed the new blog post's background because your blog gets far less attention than the forum.
Which might be because you update it, on average, once a month.
Really Trekkie, you don't even try to deny it, you're more interested in the technical aspects of the code behind your blog and all that stuff than the words themselves which go on it. But that's cool.
Anyway, now that I've gotten used to it, the new fonts and stuff actually do look better. Tell harley to make the directory button some more.

Posted by: TragicJester at October 7, 2003 12:52 PM

The design's great, but I have a question about your browser in your pic -
That looks a LOT like Safari (bookmark book top left, et al.), but it has a really nice skin.
My question is: Hack, or, more importantly, where can I get?

Posted by: Raistlin at November 29, 2003 10:08 PM

That look is the Power Metal theme made by Swiz. All of his themes come with matching Safaricon skins for Safari. To get it just download his Power Metal theme and you'll have everything.

Posted by: Trekkie at November 29, 2003 11:01 PM

i like the scheme you have here.

very awesome.

is MT any good... i'm getting tired of B2, was thinking of switching.

Posted by: j-d at December 10, 2003 07:45 PM

bw suxors j/k

Posted by: kreen at January 10, 2004 07:29 PM