Redesigned

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It’s been a couple of months already since I made a custom theme for Tech Hive. I have been using my Spartan theme which sucks big time. I knew I’m really not good with creating something that can be used by everyone. Sad, I know

Anyway, for some time now, I wanted to stop using plain and clean backgrounds. So I came up with this after obsessing over pownce’s design for sometime. I loved what I did with the background that I hate to see it covered by a solid color so I used PNG! A transparent PNG over a transparent PNG, yes, yes it’s pownce!

I’m pretty sure I just crossed some serious accessibility rules (just look at the colors) but sometimes, I guess it’s OK to break some rules. And I haven’t done something like this before so… Sorry if the colors hurts your eyes, I’m still looking into it.

I’m very proud of the designs that I come up with for this blog because it’s not the type of designs that I usually create.

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I got into a couple of galleries because of this, I originally intended for this to be for my portfolio but I got tired of it and used it here instead.

And now this! I hope I can finally finish my portfolio because that’s another something I usually don’t do. Anyway, I just fixed some obvious bugs that I could find so if you ever encounter something don’t hesitate to let me know

Oh, and yeah, the inner pages look horrible and I haven’t added any pagination for the homepage yet. I didn’t set up a dev environment for this, I only checked it locally because I’m lazy like that lol.

10 Responses to “Redesigned”

MK May 12, 2008 at 1:45 am

is it viewable in IE 6? or do we just scrap that browser already lol
Mae May 12, 2008 at 11:11 am

I wanted to but I can’t lol what you see using Fx is also what you’ll see in IE, pretty much
vashyoung May 16, 2008 at 6:59 pm

lets start scraping IE6 … kill IE6
vashyoung May 16, 2008 at 7:07 pm

IE6 problem - just the padding or margin on the rightside
Mae May 17, 2008 at 10:45 pm

lets start scraping IE6 … kill IE6

If only that would be easy haha

IE6 problem - just the padding or margin on the rightside

Great! Will look into that, thanks!
Max Weir June 10, 2008 at 8:55 am

Glad to see you taking risks with transparency and such. You should also have a conditional for IE6 and below where the transparent bg is replaced with a solid color, even though it will be different at least they will still have something nice to look at.
Mae June 11, 2008 at 9:42 pm

Thanks max Actually, it’s still transparent in IE6
Max Weir June 12, 2008 at 4:43 am

Awesome! Can you give me some info on how you achieved this? Thanks.
Mae June 12, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Just follow the steps in this blog post of mine >> http://www.tech-hive.com/css-tips/the-great-IE-6-hack/ There are certain limitations to the “hack” but overall, it’s nice.
Sai June 16, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Nice layout Mae! Love it!!! Great job!!