Yet Another Blog Theme
hey look! CSS!
It’s that time again, when I decide a couple of weeks is far too long to have the same old theme for my blog. I have to say, I think I may have an addiction of sorts with CSS and discovering all the fancy new things it is capable of in Firefox 3.5+. From all the glorious fonts I am now able to use, to the experiments with box-shadow, there’s never a dull moment.
This latest theme was built pretty much from scratch. I started with the un-theme called Starkers – a bare-bones theme with zero CSS design. Using that as my canvas I played around with the layout and hackery skills I’ve developed along the way and came up with what you see before you. I’m enjoying it (for the time being) for its cleanliness and use of font as main design element. I’m thinking more of my designs moving forward will utilize font as one of the core foundations to the work.
So there you have it. A new month, a new theme. This time, no longer simply taking someone’s already built Wordpress theme and modifying it, but a “from scratch” work. It’ll evolve I’m sure, but let me know what you think.
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Very clean, very nice. Though I did like the old one; the large background was pretty cool
It’s nice, but it makes FF 3.5 *crawl* with smooth scrolling enabled on my machine. Very few sites manage to do that. I am curious what the exact reason for that is. If you ever find out, please, blog about it.
Odd. I’m not getting any slowdown here (OSX, 3.5.1). The design relies heavily on font-face and rgba color for most of the elements. My only guess is one of the custom fonts, but that is a wild guess. I’ll see if I notice the slowdown on another machine (XP, Win7).
I just tried it on one more machine which is a lot more modern and although it was a bit better, it still wasn’t ’smooth’ scrolling.
Both machines run XP. My machine is a 1.5 GHz Pentium-M and the other is a Core 2 Duo 2 GHz.
Did you file a bug about the slowness? I’m seeing jerky scrolling and a pegged processor when I scroll. This is on OS X with 3.next. Those browser guys love getting examples of problem pages.
The slowness goes away if I take the box-shadow off the element.
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A definite great read….