Thursday, April 2, 2009

Blogger Template TB20090402 (The White Grail)

The Grail again, but White and no rounded corners ... with extended Blogger Variables.
This comes as close to the old 'DownRight' as I can get.
Said again … maybe there is still room for one or two (modern and solid) templates showing a lot of Space and Simplicity?!?

The White Grail HomePage
The White Grail HomePage

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Blogger Template TB20090327 (The 2th Grail)

A mix between the 21 and 24, so a ‘Grail’ with a Double Right Sidebar.
That's it for now, otherwise I am becoming overenthusiastic. There are so many ugly/plain/good/great Blogger and WordPress (and all) templates and themes. Why adding more to this (over)load?
Err … maybe there is still room for one or two (modern and solid) templates showing a lot of Space and Simplicity?!?

The 2th Grail HomePage

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Blogger Template TB20090324 (The Grail)

Some 2 years ago I published the 'Down Right' Blogger Template ... I have honestly no clue where that name came from! Anyway, here is the new version: 'The Grail' (not Holy, for this isn't a fluid theme). The rounded Corners are not CSS3 border-radius defined but hand-crafted, so they do work in ALL browsers.

The Grail HomePage

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Monday, March 23, 2009

New Blogger Template TB20090321

Today I have modified my private tb20090220.xml file to an official Blogger template: the tb20090321 (template_tb20090321_v1.0.xml).

the TB20090321 HomePage

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

A Second Beginning ...

Okay, ending a Sabbatical year
(rather wide, that is: uploaded my last Blogger Post Thursday, August 17, 2006)
here's A Second Beginning.
Just for fun, mind you, for I am certainly not going to reopen The Workshop.
After two annoying experiences where some bugger (or some Spider or Robot - in that case: written by that same shithead) snatched away my Blogger domain I was so pissed I threw away the whole bloody lot!
Literally everything.
Ultimately I even discharged myself as a Blogger Forum Moderator.

End of an era!

But hey, since I started playing with WordPress Themes again ... I might as well continue twiddling with Blogger layouts too... merely as a pleasant side issue.

Two days ago I was - it unexpectedly popped into my head, not a hunch why * - wondering how easy or hard it would be to create a Blogger Template using a CSS Framework like BlueprintCSS (I'm using BlueprintCSS for WordPress and bbPress). So far the trigger.

That proved to be a Piece Of Cake: you can create fresh templates (save Typography and Styling, of course) with any (few or many) number of columns ... literally ... in minutes.

Another WordPress Theme example can be viewed by clicking the picture above, showing the Index page of the TB20090113 Tatter. This Blogger Layout here is a - sort of - translation from that TB20090113 WordPress Theme. It's a Draft ... .

Building the current WordPress Theme (TB20090204) I made a special effort to create an all-browser-compatible (certainly backward compatible) gang. Okay!

In case of the WP TB20090113 and this Blogger Template the CSS3 feature Border-Radius is implemented ... for CSS defined Rounded Corners. That is if you are browsing with Firefox, Safari or Chrome. For these nice looking rounded corners are not showing in MIE and Opera! Nah, that's okay too. This is a draft, as I mentioned.

*) Not true: I made this Blogger Template right after this guy left a comment on my Wordpress site, asking me whether that template is only for WP or for Blogger too.

Friday, February 20, 2009

I'm not talking about your pigtails

but I'm talking 'bout your sex appeal.

This is a reprint from an entry written on Saturday, January 21, 2006.
At that moment I was working for my company in Zaandam (close to Amsterdam).
I was pleased with my job ... and very pleased with ...


Yesterday evening, before hitting the asphalt back home, I visited the AH store beneath the parking-lot, where these two young people, armed with a video-camera and blossoming smiles, tried to capture passers-by.
Normally I would prefer having my head chopped off before ... errr ... .
She didn't have any pigtails, but ... well ... you know, there was a welcoming sight - countenance and appearance!
She did have that kind of 'Lonneke Engel' pinnule and posture. Not at all that perfect, so perchance even more graceful!

Reflecting on the subject I told them I really wasn't the man they wanted. They acceded this truth quickly enough but we kept chatting for a while - both guy and girl very relaxed, noticeably enjoying their little project.
They probably have wiped this Ugly Faustus Face already, for all that!

Thus to be filed under: pleasant encounters.