Beauty Is Skin Deep

To any­one who isn’t read­ing this site by Braille, you can tell that the look is chang­ing. Of course, that’s all that’s chang­ing since I’m spend­ing this evening play­ing with the style sheet. To facil­i­tate an on-going dis­cus­sion between myself and the Jedi Mas­ter design­er, Jason John­son, I thought I’d cre­ate a new post to which com­ments on such things seem relevant.

I’m mak­ing no promis­es to what final form this site will take, oth­er than the fact it will have lots of infor­ma­tion cre­ate by me about things I find inter­est­ing. Short of that, any­thing goes. It’s all about the jour­ney here. I’m dis­cov­er­ing new things about CSS, Word­Press, and Flickr all the time and this is my lit­tle sand­box with which to play them. Also, I’m hop­ing to learn a few hacks in PHP when time allows. When will the fun stop?

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By Jason Coleman

Structural engineer and technical content manager Bentley Systems by day. Geeky father and husband all the rest of time.

6 comments

  1. Wow. I’ve nev­er been called a Jedi Mas­ter before. Thanks.

    Any­who— Looks like things are shap­ing up for the super_structure. I like the back­ground pat­tern, but it’s almost too high-con­trast for me, per­son­al­ly. I’d like to see it toned-down a lit­tle. Instead of white and brown, maybe an off-off-white and brown. Of course, it could be that I’m look­ing at it on a lap­top screen.

  2. I know exact­ly what you are get­ting at. I had actu­al­ly want­ed a pat­tern that gave an over­all tan effect, rather than brown any­way. This is kind of like look­ing a stere­ogram or something.
    I also want­ed one that was­n’t overt­ly flow­ery or any­thing con­crete. Much more of an abstract pattern.

  3. Changed the back­ground, but of course I messed the pat­tern up some. I also am play­ing around with some col­ors as well. I’m not sure that the blue and brown play well togeth­er. I do like the util­i­ty pole image, though. I think Flickr is the coolest.
    Oh, yeah, what do you think of my two line Cre­ative Com­mons but­ton? I think it did­n’t turn out too bad.

  4. Sor­ry man. I crashed around 3:30 am PST. The back­ground is much sub­tler now. I like that bet­ter. Oh, and the CC but­ton is nice. Too bad there was­n’t room for one more row of gray pixels.

    BTW, I had­n’t seen the new flickr pics. I like the ones from New Year’s.

  5. Actu­al­ly, the for­mer and cur­rent pat­tern both came from Mr. Fin­gers; who is not relat­ed to either sal­ad nor banana fin­gers. Yes, he is indeed the pat­tern master.
    Yeah, it’s kind of bad about those but­tons that they aren’t just tall enough for two rows of text to fit even­ly. I sup­pose it’s not a bad com­prim­ise, though.

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