Posted by Doug
Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:33:42 GMT
When I switched to Typo I started using a page design called “Rio”. I liked the layout and functionality, but not the colors. When I switched my color scheme I said I’d make my old Rio theme available. Now I have! It’s uploaded to the Typo ticket system as ticket #378.
Keep in mind the theme isn’t “finished”. Some of the colors are left over from the default Azure theme. Rather than polish off Rio, I ended up switching to my current theme and putting the work in on it. Also, there are a lot of images in this theme. I’ve included the photoshop files I used to generate the PNG files.
Have fun with it! If you end up using it, I’d like to see your site. Drop me a note and let me know if you can.
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Posted by Doug
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:56:08 GMT
I couldn’t take the John Deere color scheme for my blog and finally redid it. The old theme was actually called “Rio” by it’s designer. I like cooler colors, myself. I’m calling this “Wine Country” after it’s purples and greens.
Oh, and I’ve also upgraded this to Typo 2.5. As part of my migration, I actually ported “Rio” to a real Typo theme. I’ll publish that one if anyone wants to use it. This is a pretty functional design. Implementing a new color scheme probably took me about three hours to Photoshop all the background images. I’m pretty happy that I got the colors right without sacrificing the quality of the images.
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Posted by Doug
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:00:28 GMT
My wife, Carla, is a stay-at-home mom; for which I’m very thankful. We have three kids that are fairly young. For the longest time I’ve wanted Carla to blog about their daily life. Since I have a stinking day-job I don’t get to hang out with them as much as I’d like. There’s so many little things that happen all the time.
Anyway, computers aren’t Carla’s thing. If you look back through her history, she’s had a hard time being consistent with blogging. After switching to Mac OS X, I got her ecto. That made it a lot easier for her.
I’m between RSS readers right now. The various aggregators I’ve used I’ve found lacking for one reason or another. So, I’m back to manually tracking web site changes. Without my noticing, Carla’s blogged a bunch over the past weeks. Her writing style is totally authentic. I love that. So, for a glimpse of life as a mom, check it out.
BTW, her blog is one of my first 100% CSS designs. She has this thing for smilie faces and the color yellow. Back when we were dating (and she was teaching elementary school), I made her a huge smilie face out of a half sheet of plywood. It was like 4 feet in diameter. So when I went to set her up a web log, it was only natural to use smilie faces. I scoured Google Images for “smile” and then made the composite image in the Gimp. I was fairly proud (and still am) of that simple design. I think it works well for her. She’s still running bloxsom, but I’ll switch her over to typo soon.
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