Today I took an entirely new direction with the design of the site.
I realized (finally) that it was, well……….ugly, and it really was looking very dull and also kind of old fashioned. So, I set about to change that.

The first thing to be changed was the color scheme. It’s now transitioning from a bunch of dull, dirty looking browns to a cleaner and fresher bluish kind of a thing. Much better if you ask me.

I also decided, while I was about it, to add a little bit of “curviness” to the design. What an easy task it is for both Safari and Firefox to render some rounded corners with a simple CSS call, and if you use either of those browsers then you are seeing that curviness in all it’s curvalicious glory, but alas, good old Internet explorer is, as usual, being a party pooper. IE does not support the border-radius property, which means in order to get curved corners in that browser I will need to use images and non semantic divs, or javascript. Neither of which, quite frankly, should be necessary when thre’s such an elegant CSS solution available.

So, my next decision will most likely be whether I add a conditional style to cater to IE’s lack of support or not. Most likely I will, as it would seem even the upcoming release of IE8 is not going to support border radius. Grrrrr.

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