A little bit better

Posted by stephen on Thursday, 23rd February, 2006 @ 20:26

Having spent some time thinking something wasn't quite right, and after hearing from my boss that he didn't like the blue, then hearing the same thing from Dave, I thought I'd best do something about it. Dave had mentioned the site being a chocolate brown colour and purple colour (I thought it was more of a blue), and simultaneously we both made reference to Cadburys chocolate. So I nipped over to their site and have blatantly stolen the hex colour reference for their purple.

After a little bit of Photoshopping and choosing a tone that's 30% brighter to make a gradient I have a result, and I'm quite pleased with it really. I've also shed a whole swath of CSS related to the sidebar and replaced it with the standard post styling, which I think makes things look a little more consistent.

As Tom suggested, it seems I'm trying to go all Web 2.0! All I need now is some AJAX, some tags and some rounded off corners!

On a side note I'm really glad I've been using Subversion for this, it's made life so much easier, and I totally recommend you use it for everything texty that you might change regularly.

What do you think of it now? Let me know!