New Template Coming -- It's a Doozie!
I haven't been posting lately because I've been fiddling around with a new template design.
It's taking a lot of fiddling and it's not yet done. I'm using (abusing?) a lot of CSS 2.0 tweaks and twiddles, which older browsers will balk at. It's got JavaScript to handle a bug in Explorer 6.0's background-fixed handling. It flickers weirdly in FireFox (surely not a *bug?*) It'll use a lot of bandwidth.
But it's pretty (or will be when it's all done.) The background image is called Still life with peaches and fig leaves by 14th Century painter Giovanni Ambrogio Figin. And this is a blog about sex, for crying out loud, not 911, CNN, or something really critical.
I *will* optimize if for accessability but not till the original design is complete.
Link: Preview the new look
Note: In a way the easy part's done -- all the major styling, imaging, and structural alterations. The hard part -- the part I *really* don't want to hear about till I actually activate the new templates -- is all the futzy little margin, border, and font-color tweaks that turn a techno-twit design into something you'd actually want to read.
If you've got non-futzy margins/padding/font-color comments please jump in. I'll give you credit in the inaugural post.
