New York, New York

The default theme for this blog is called Painted Desert and I like it, but I just can’t leave well enough alone. First I changed the original header image to one with a Miata to better suit me and now I’m working on a little thing to keep it fresh that I hope to get going this weekend for all you Internet Explorer users.

Last Friday I fell in love with a theme called Vistered Little, that is real slick, but choked on IE big time. Well the good news is that Internet Explorer 7 RC1 displays it pretty well, so it has become Donna’s favorite way to read this here gibberish.

My favorite way to view this blog is using a theme called New York, New York. First I kept the white style and replaced the New York skyline background with a Miata collage, but then I saw some one’s dark version of the theme and knew that ws the way to go and I had just the image for the background, the one from the Windows Vista homepage. A quick search of the web led me to the stand alone jpeg. The girl would look kind of stupid in the background of a page called “Life of Brian” and I didn’t have a suitable photo of me I could photoshop in, so lucky for me the same place had a de-girled jpeg too. I’ve spent the last couple hours tweaking the CSS to get it to look great in Firefox 1.5, but I still need to do a little work on single post pages and archives and such. In IE 7 it looks passable, but the post header opacity doesn’t work rendering them too bright white. In IE 6, who knows.