New look

I was trying to get a new look going with my blog here, and not liking anything … It’s near impossible to get the thing I was going for working, so I scaled back and thought and now I like it OK.

No photo at the top. No grunge paper look background.

Now it’s all linen.

My favorite basic blue’s and a little of the grunge look in the blog title (looks kind of like a grungy thicker, FWIW). I also made a ribbon & flower graphic in Photoshop Elements, used some of the built-in images for those, but changed them drastically with texture layers, color-fill layers, opacity changes … bevels, shadows, etc.

I put a groove border around the #Page part of the css file for this theme. That made it all come together nicely.

As nice as it looks on my laptop display, I looked at it on my old desktop that is connected to a Vizio TV … and it doesn’t look very nice … The button on the flower looks stand out by itself blue (more than it does on the laptop) the header blue linen is drab, the background linen is more gray than the denim blue it looks on my laptop. So … sorry for anyone else who has a terrible view of my design. I’m not sure what’s going on ’cause I used web safe colors, and those are jpgs as well. Also, the header is one jpg. All parts together look awesome in photoshop, and as the jpg generated for the header that I upload. Looks good on my laptop computer display online in Firefox 5. Looks the same in Chrome. The bad view is the Vizio VGA mode … no doubt, so I hope none of you have horrible monitor settings/displays …

The thing about that button center of the flower, it looks alright with the header on my laptop, but on the Vizio it has totally different property looks. It looks even brighter and the header itself even duller. The Text all looks the same on both. The Ribbon too. The flower mostly. It’s the button and the blue linen background of the header and the background of the whole page that are all wrong on the Vizio connected to my old desktop computer.

I do know that the other differences could be in the computer’s graphics, so in a minute or two I’ll check the old laptop that’s running Ubuntu to see what’s what on THAT machine with this design.

— It looked same on the old laptop as on my laptop, so it’s Vizio overall, but the other thing is, I AM going to change it again, just tweak things, get rid of that flower, for one …

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This morning (Thursday) I finished the new flower thing, and changed the blue’s of the header and the background and some things about the text. Looks more vibrant, at least, without the scary pink flower it’s better. We’ll see if it’s final, for now.

–further update … looks much better all around everywhere.