Post-October New Theme

October has come and gone and so down must come the Pink for October theme. I’ve been working on this theme in my spare hours but overall I really like it. Nothing revolutionary, no JavaScript, one Internet Explorer 6- CSS file (gif replacement for the transparent png logo) and yet its a great leap forward for me. This design was the first one I did using Photoshop to design the initial layout and look. I don’t know if the end result shows it but I was able to forget about the limitations of CSS and XHTML and really have fun. I think that future designs will translate better from Photoshop to CSS/XHTML but overall I am happy.

I have decided to continue supporting cancer on this site by including links to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society in the footer.

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#1 written by Andrew
about 3 years ago

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Very nice design. I can see you put a lot of hard work into it. Would you like to make a theme for my blog? ;-)
#2 written by Adam
about 3 years ago

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I don’t know, you probably want too much Jazz on your blog. Once you go K2 you can never go back :o)
#3 written by Andrew
about 3 years ago

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Ain’t it the truth, brother. Ain’t it the truth.
#4 written by Sergey
about 3 years ago

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Nice! I’ve seen the preview, so it was kinda like cheating, but curious no links section anymore?
#5 written by Adam
about 3 years ago

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Well as to the links section, it doesn’t fit anymore. I don’t want to have a sidebar and the footer is full enough so my plan was to move the links section off to the author bio page but I haven’t gotten around to creating that yet.

Still trying to figure out how I am going to update adamhewgill.com which will play a role in how parts of this site are linked.
#6 written by Kevin Plested
about 3 years ago

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Very nice look. You’re learning, stop learning, learning bad, people good. Get away from the computer.
#7 written by Adam
about 3 years ago

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Hehe, your just afraid that I’ll start edging in on your business with my new development and design firm.

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