Caution: wet paint

Thursday, 26 May 2005

When I designed my current weblog I was trying to experiment with transparency and shadows. It was something that was not used much, certainly not to the extend I was going to try. The whole concept was based on PNG images and worked pretty well – in Firefox and Opera. IE was problematic, because its support for transparency is currently far below par.

After 8 months it is time for something new. Another challenge: try to prevent using any unnecessary classes and tags and attributes and keep only the required semantic tags. In other words a very clean source code without any ‘fat’. It is still a work in progress, and unlike others, I am not going to do a live-redesign. If you want to take a look at my progress, head over to v2.rakaz.nl, which is build using the same content database, but a different skin.

For the first time I am also going to support Microsoft Internet Explorer, which is a big feat, because at the same time I am also starting to use some CSS3 attribute selectors. Other problematic area’s are generated content, fixed positioning and having to deal with quirks mode, which is activated because IE does not know how to deal with xml declarations. It should all work fine though. No thanks to the IE team, but solely because of the genius of Dean Edwards and his IE7 script.

More updates soon…

8 Responses to “Caution: wet paint”

hcgtv wrote on May 26th, 2005 at 1:24 pm ✦

I like version 2, scrolls better in Firefox on Linux :)
Brutal wrote on May 30th, 2005 at 3:50 am ✦

V2 looks great , but it’s "Photos" – Not "Photo’s"
vd wrote on May 31st, 2005 at 8:01 pm ✦

i think, v2 look worse than v1, but it does not mean that is bad at all. just look poor but best performance (except scrolling).

– sorry for my bad english :)
CyberMage wrote on June 1st, 2005 at 7:29 am ✦

I prefer the transparency site (so much so I created a theme for my own blog based very closely on a reproduction of your basic design – with my own graphics.)

Plz forgive me. It’s so obscure you’ll never see the site anyway.
anon wrote on June 1st, 2005 at 2:41 pm ✦

"I prefer the transparency site (so much so I created a theme for my own blog based very closely on a reproduction of your basic design – with my own graphics.)

Plz forgive me. It’s so obscure you’ll never see the site anyway."

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God damn rippers are everywhere these days. :-/
CyberMage wrote on June 1st, 2005 at 9:31 pm ✦

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
David Naylor wrote on June 8th, 2005 at 10:45 pm ✦

I really love your current design – its among the most beautiful blog designs I’ve ever seen actually. I’d say stick with it!
mel wrote on November 29th, 2005 at 6:38 pm ✦

i like version one. i am very new to this blog stuff and trying to figure out how to add a blog to my site. can you help?