Showing posts with label layout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label layout. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Layout and Firebug

Meaningful posts have been interrupted by layout designs for the site. I started off trying to get a train or train wreck theme. I didn't really like them, but then I had to rethink that. I decided that instead of portraying a train wreck, I wanted to portray the reporting of a train wreck. Hence, I put together a layout that is supposed to resemble an old newspaper clipping. I borrowed the tedium of CSS and crazy Blogger.com XSL~ish type stuff from a layout called "Kubrick". All the rest of the art I did myself. I made pretty good use of a cool Firefox add-in called Firebug. Check it out at http://www.getfirebug.com. It is really handy for quick style edits.

The layout seems to work well enough on Firefox 2.0 and Safari 3.0 for Mac as well as Firefox 2.0 and IE7 on PC.