Salutations, traveler of The Internets! Welcome to William's Bloody Hell, so named after our founder, Sir Bloody William.
He is seen in the likeness above in a rare, 19th century woodcut. This
image was rumoured to have been
commissioned after a bout of unpleasantness
in the White Chapel district of London. Do enjoy your stay and peruse our many, varied offerings, much of which cannot be found elsewhere!
:: Today's soundtrack: The Smiths "Asleep" ::
Would you get a load of this?
Okay, I'm sure the first question you have about this new layout is: why the pop-up? Well, I'll tell you. My own personal screen resolution is 1024x768. I didn't realize just how crappy my last layout looked if you happened to have 800x600, until I changed my settings one day just to see. Good gravy it was awful. So, with the pop-up, I know exactly where everything will appear on everyone's screen, because I made the pop-up 800x600. Also, this way I don't have to worry about the background image doing anything funky, like repeating, on other resolutions. Sorry to people with high screen resolutions about the pop-up positioning in the upper left. I'm still working on making pop centered. Hey, there's only so much new information I can process in my brain at one time.
Now, about the pic. It is pretty well close to the same one as before. I guess I re-used it because I like this site being as original as possible and like using art I drew in the main design. I still had a background-less version of it saved, so I decided to use it again this time as a background and not just a side pic. Well, as I was coloring in the grass, I realized that with the white patches it looked like snow-covered ground with some grass blades peeking through, and we had just had a huge snow-fall here so I guess snow was on my mind. I decided it would be neat to change with the season, so that is why it is now Version 2: One Winter.
The title "One Winter" comes from one of my new favorite books, The Perks of Being a Wall flower (read my Review). In the book, the lead character gives a mix tape to a friend for Secret Santa entitled "One Winter" and it is a pretty decent compilation of acoustic tunes, including "Asleep" by the Smiths, which is why that is today's soundtrack.
The main navigation above is exactly the same. Every sub-index is right where it was before so don't worry about getting lost.
The About Me "secret" section has been moved because there is no longer an image to the left to link it from. It still exists, but the link to get there has changed. I'm not telling what, or where it is just because it is more fun this way, but it not very hard to figure out, there Einstein.
I'm still tossing around in my mind about this color scheme in this frame. I like white for the background, but I don't know about this text color. Is it too light? The current Hex code I'm using is #808080 for text, but if anybody out there has any ideas, I'm all ears.
Yes, that's right I'm still using the same bloody font! I can't help it! I love it. It is called CasablancaAntique, but again I'm not sure how readable it is with these colors. There may not be enough contrast. I also decreased the size of the font to accommodate how it looks in the new frame. A good sized font was fine before when the frame extended all the way to right margin, but not in such a tight space. Sorry, I hate teeny-tiny fonts but felt it looked best here for the sake of the design.
I also kept the same logo design, because I like it and it still fits since I'm still using the same font. I designed it myself, so I'm very pleased with it.
And 3 cheers for me learning how to use iFrames! I suppose the main reason my site sucked ass on lower resolutions is because I was using regular frames, and smaller screens squish them. But, on iFrames, no more! The frame size is defined in pixels, and not by the whole of the screen so no more squishing! The only problem with such a small window is the art viewing. But every pic has the option to be viewed in a full screen window, just click on it.
On to the thank yous: Thanks to DHTML Shock for being the first place where I found the coding to change scroll bar colors and also showing me how to make Back buttons. They weren't necessary before, but in a pop-up they most definitely are. Thanks to Lissa Explains for the most excellent color slider and the Hex codes it provides, also for teaching me to make a basic style sheet for crying out loud! Thanks to Goddess Glow for the tutorials on how to make simple pop-ups without downloading a freakin' program to do it! Also for teaching me how to make color/font adjustments on form blanks and buttons! And a big thanks to FrontPage because I still don't do the majority of my own coding. But damn it, I'm learning! I started doing zero coding and now I do probably 40% of it on my own with help of awesome tutorials like the ones I already mentioned. Great big thanks to David the Great for getting me FrontPage to begin with, for making web-design a little less scary, and for patiently being there when had questions. You rock, man. And special thank you to me pal Katherine who recommended Wallflower and many other great things besides. Special thanks also to Becca for being a very cool person and slapping me silly until I got them comment boxes. I'd also like to thank anyone who ever made a contribution to this site. I would have very little content without you guys!
So, thank you, for visiting me, whomever you are. And if you've been here before, you can surely see the vast improvements to the "look" of this site. I guess I'm saying, stick around, because it can only get better from here. The rant will be more entertaining next week, I hope, but I was just so very excited by this new layout I had to talk about it. And, if I'm excited by something I tend to go on and on about without knowing when to stop.
William (is frightened by what he
can learn)
