Pure-Essence.Net

new theme: tulip

March 19th, 2004

i think this theme looks quite soothing. i love the header image i learned a few new tricks while putting together this theme. first i made the cloudy tiled background with photoshop.

make cloudy tiled background
1. create a new image. i used 250×250px. you can go whatever. fill the image with the color you like. i used medium grey.
2. filter -> render -> clouds that will create a cloudy looking image
3. filter -> other -> offset make sure you have warp around checked
mine turned out to be pretty seamless with just minor imperfection. i corrected it with smudge tool. ideally the offset warp around trick should work for making any tiled backgrounds but i haven’t tried.

i also learned a new css trick.

another css trick
thought it’s kinda cool to make the first letter of the body of your text unique. do something like:
.just:first-letter { font-size: 200%; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: bold; color: #C89F40; }

for me the first letter included in <div class=”just”> and </div> will look different than others. you may also use it for paragraph tag like:
p:first-letter { /* your definition */ }