Will Hines Dot Net

Ok. Frustrated with my own attempts to make a cleanly-designed page, I’ve take a pre-fab stylesheet I like very much called “Kubrick” and installed it here. All previously designed styles (“whitealbum”, “roomy”, etc.) are no longer available, as the whole page is laid out differently and they wouldn’t apply anymore. Kubrick is clean and simple and if you’d like, you can get it here: http://binarybonsai.com/kubrick/

Kubrick (the style) is CLEAN and NICE to my eye. It’s something I’d want to actually add to. For someone of my poor design skills to try and articulate why this particular design works or does not is probably like Jeff Foxworthy trying to explain the appeal of Curb Your Enthuasim. But I THINK it’s simply that this style drops most of the unnecessary elements of a blog (the calendar, the author’s name) and adds in a lot of white space. That, and the link colors are consistent with the header, and the edges are nicely rounded and faded. Something like that. It sounds easy when you say it like that, but I can’t manage to do it.

The menu of green tabs beneath the header I stole from maxdesign’s Listamatic (1), which you can find here: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/horizontal24.htm. They should probably be blue but I like that splash of green so I’m keeping it that way.

I’d like to change the header graphic to have either a photo of me, or a drawing of a stick figure. So that might happen.

How WOULD Jeff Foxworthy describe the appeal of Curb Your Enthusiasm? “Well, it shore don’t seem funny to me, but I guess city folk like to see the Jew people complain or sumpin’. And it’s all impervised so it seems natueeral. Hee-yaw! I’m a-thirsty! Some’un geet me a nice glass ‘a lemony-ade!”

More blog entires about this blog are sure to follow! Woo! Get comfy!