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 250x250px. 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 */
}
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Oh, very nice. The header is so refreshing.
Beautiful theme! 🙂
Safari’s being a butt about that ‘first letter’ css. It’s making the first few words/lines huge instead of the first letter. *kicks browser*
that bites.. i guess i have to part from using it 😦
Perfect! Flowers are so romantic. 🙂
Sis, I love this theme. It’s so elegant. 🙂
:-O
such a beautiful layout!
Very nice theme. It is very soothing indeed.
i love flowers! your layout are so beautiful *-**’ mmm, is good when we learn new things! it isn’t? kisses
:s i’m seeing the winter theme =\
but ah, the new tulip theme, i see i see, and yea the header is really pretty ^___^
I love the new theme… it’s beautiful!! Tulips are my favorite flower 😀 Guess what? I wrote my first PHP script yesterday… yay!!
congratz, what did you write?
Im wrote a ‘DoodleBlog’ script… kinda like a Photoblog, but with Doodles hehe 🙂 It’s like a simplified bloggin’ thing… im having trouble with the admin login/logout tho grrr
The new theme is lovely. Also, thanks for the cleartype thingy, that was driving me crazy, I had to highlight the stuff to read it 😦
I meant in the last post…
The theme is so beautiful Dodo, excellent work!
its lovely!
Wow, beautiful theme! What I like most about it is how it captures the domain name so well!
:(Tulip theme’s gorgeous. ^.^ I tried the tiled cloud background in your instructions, but couldn’t get it. What version of Photoshop do you use?
photoshop 7.0
Hmm, same, I must be doing it wrong…