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 Cure "39" ::
Well, holy crap, it's a brand new layout! What the hell, right? Let's just say I felt about due since it had been more than a year since I changed it, but I did enjoy the zombie look for quite some time. I might do zombies again some day. But for now...
So, check out Evil William in the title banner up top, there. Evil William kills baby bunnies and tosses them into burning pits. He also enjoys knitting mittens. Evil William came into existence because I felt like I wanted to keep a pic with blood in it to correspond with some of the themes of this site. It's not completely original, in that I was cruising Google to get ideas, and came across an image of a Carrie book jacket with this pose. I put the blood on the face as a kind of homage to a scene in Perfect Blue, one of my favourite animated films. The flames are there because... er... I'm not exactly sure. Hell, maybe? Yes. Let's go with that. See how clever I am? "Bloody" is written the ROCKY font, which you can download from Famous Fonts. I don't normally download many fonts, but just try to keep your mouse away from some of those!
And yeah, keeping blood in the image has the added benefit of me being able to keep the same black-red-dark red colour scheme. Granted it's been changed around a bit, but this way I don't have to edit the comment boxes, guestbook and tagboard. Gravy that stuff is my least favourite part of layout changing, so forgive me for bypassing it, okay?
The navigation buttons have a cool new effect, don't they? Sometime in the past few months, I found this script for link rollovers, and I have been itching to use it. I had been advised a while back to try and incorporate some of my style elements from the header in other parts of the layout as well, so this is my attempt at that, and I think it was good advice (that and blood spatter is fun to draw). Also, I changed the "regular" links effects because I had been told before that having the text "disappear" on hover was a bit annoying sometimes, and I like the idea of the strike-through on a used link. Other than that, the navigation is completely the same-easy-use system. I wouldn't want any of you to get lost.
Still in a table, I know, but I LIKE the table, and YOU like the table, too. Yes you do. Look into Evil William's eyes and obey. I think it looks nice with the cellspacing set at 3 like that. I don't know if the background is too red, maybe? If you have a 800x600 resolution, you probably are getting minimal redness, but sorry for all the scrolling you have to do. I hope it looks alright in 1024x768 (minimal scrolling, I hope. I did try!). MY screen is set at a loverly 1152x864, and I get quite a bit of red, but not too terrible, I guess. If anyone has a background suggestion that would compliment the tables and colour scheme, I'm all ears. You'll notice the welcome message is out of the table and onto the enter page. This is because I couldn't find a place for it in this table set up and keep it reasonably sized for 1024x768 resolutions. I like having the welcome message, and I don't think it clutters the welcome page; it's still pretty tidy compared to some I see out there with their pixel adoptions and animated waving flag gifs or whatever.
I'm digging this layout so far; it feels good with me. I mean, looking at how I started out in 2003, to now, it simply amazes me that I turned into a guy who could evolve from that to this. I remember how coding my first table made me want to commit justifiable computer homicide on more than one occasion, but now I actually enjoy it. Freaky. The table just looks so organized and perfectly aligned, I can't help but loving it (Can you say "OCD"? Sure. I knew that you could).
William (blood on the table)
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