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Time Sensitive

January 14, 2007 at 7:35pm

I spent some time this afternoon building in time and weather sensitivity to my blog’s design. I spent absolutely zero time trying to phrase that last sentence so that I didn’t sound like a complete dork.

This redesign was partly driven by Smashing Magazine’s ‘30 dark designs’ article, partly driven by Amy spending all weekend blogging, and partly driven by the fact that ever since Dunstan Orchard took down his blog I’ve wanted to do something like this.

It’s a first step, there are only basic designs in place for sunny day, cloudy day and night. I think I’d definitely like to get a “twilight” one in there, maybe a rain or a snow, and then maybe a few easter eggs as I come up with them.

Comments and suggestions are, as always, welcome.

 

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Comments

I love it!

Posted by Lindsey

January 15, 2007 at 8:07am
 

You should let other artists design weather themed headers.

Posted by Jaythan

January 15, 2007 at 2:21pm
 

Other artists like you? ;)

I think that’s a great idea, I’d be happy to wrap something like that into the site.

Posted by Nick

January 15, 2007 at 2:23pm
 

Wow, this is really cool. Nice work, Nick.

Posted by John Zeratsky

January 15, 2007 at 3:24pm
 

Thanks John!

Posted by Nick

January 16, 2007 at 6:05am
 

Did you do a sunset one yet? If so, you should post a link to it, cause I only ever see the site when it’s dark. :)

Posted by amyybeth

January 17, 2007 at 6:26pm
 

You mean like this?

Posted by Nick

January 17, 2007 at 6:39pm
 

This is fantastic! My favorite’s the twilight. :)

Posted by gretchen

January 18, 2007 at 5:49am
 

This is so neat, I’d like to see it snowing like it is outside today.

Posted by mom

January 21, 2007 at 7:25am
 

Looking forward to your next steps. I’d love to see a semi detailed tutorial on the topic.

Posted by Hatman

March 25, 2007 at 5:33pm
 

Thanks Hatman — I’ll see what I can whip up. :)

Posted by Nick

March 26, 2007 at 7:59pm
 

i’d love a tutorial on how to do this

Posted by jamie martin

March 29, 2007 at 1:18am
 
 

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