Jan 30 2008
WinterWarm: A sneak preview…
I’ve done a fair bit of work on the site design and only have a few things left to tweak. I found a theme I absolutely adore but the layout is fairly image based so I had to do a lot of editing in Fireworks to change the colours.
But, boy, do I love the colours now! So here is a sneak preview…

(Note: I’ve compressed the image so it looks a little blurry here, but at least I’ve saved you some time on page load.)
The base theme had no header image so it took some work to build that in, although the hardest part was finding the right image to begin with and then blending it so that it would work full width while the content itself was fixed width.
I also incorporated a more website-style menu, rather than the usual blog-like list of pages beecause the blog isn’t the most important feature of the site: Making sure people have access to all the information they need to help us out is. I couldn’t take a screen shot with the hover effect - because I had to use my mouse to get the screen shot, but on hover the menu item changes to a lilac background, also with the little arrow indent.
Like I said, the CSS is a little image based but I haven’t created something like this before so I’m quite pleased. The 3 pictures there will change. I’ve just used stock images while working on the layout. Unfortunately my mother’s external hard drive got stolen so I don’t have access to all her photographs from Afghanistan.
It was a horrible loss for her after a decade of working overseas and travelling to exotic places and meeting so many wonderful people. Unfortunately her laptop only has thumbnails so everything is gone. It’s a good reminder to backup, I guess. But what an awful reminder!
I also switched the theme to left sidebar instead of right, again, so it appears more as a website than a blog, and I removed the top navigation bar all together.
I’ll probably write more about it the base theme later - and bore you all to tears - but I just wanted to show you a little bit of what I’ve been doing while abandoning this blog to hurried, un-proofread posts.
And when I finally have some free time? Boy, is this blog’s design in for a major overhaul!

The one thing I did achieve is now visible on your tab (if you use Firefox) and in your address bar. Notice that red squiggly thing? That’s my favicon, a tiny little sign of the shape of things to come and a kind-of-logo for The Cerebral Mum. But what is it?
Recently, I had a few new visitors to my blog. I like to try and return the favour. Tonight, stopping by to see Sueblimely 

