The more observant of you may notice the new header=)
Just a little something I knocked together this afternoon to start the ball rolling on the changes i’m making to my blog. I originally intended to imitate the style from the title screen of Cowboy Bebop Session 2 (shown below) and although I made the whole image from scratch (no 3rd party graphics), I’ve made a few modifications for simplicity. I feel it’s time to finally put the Sympathy for the Devil moniker to bed and match up with my blog address (and yes, I know about the double ‘T’!!).
The biggest trouble was the title text as I couldn’t find a Cowboy Bebop font (and it seems others have had the same trouble), so in the end I went with “Century” which had all the nice Serif tails like they have, which I then bevelled and then rasterized before hacking it to bits with the eraser. The end result is close enough to please me=) For the Japanese characters I cheated a little and got the text from Amazon.jp before formatting it to get the look I wanted.
Once I’d uploaded, I had trouble getting the new image to sit right and it turns out a little tweaking of the CSS code was necessary. While it’s supposedly not necessary to specify a height for the header (in this case in the #outer-wrapper section), I found that when I tried to keep my nice (suitably recoloured) gradient edging, I got about a five pixel gap between my image and the edging graphic. The solution turned out to be to declare a height for the header LESS the height of the edging graphic. I’m new to CSS scripting though so let me know if you see something funny in your browser;-)
I *may* make some small changes in the future if I feel the need. I’m in two minds about the right side as I had originally intended to put a graphic there but the only Ein picture I’ve drawn (ages ago) isn’t quite what I wanted. I’m quite pleased with the paw prints though (created very simply using the custom shape tool in Photoshop).
More changes to follow.
August 31st, 2008 at 6:46 am
i like……
August 31st, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I like……
By the way are you free this week? Say Friday?
August 31st, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Thank you both=)
Unfortunately i’m not – we head off for Cornwall on friday=S
I think we’re not back until the following friday and then we’re off to York on the monday, and that will take me right up to the friday before we go back to uni=S
So I guess the only time i’m free is possibly evenings this week except friday – the next sat/sun after that, and the one after that – if any of that made sense?=S
Oh I just remembered…there’s a little thing called MSN..
August 31st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Oh great(!) i’m attracting Casinos now..