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Style Updates

07March2006 [directLink] [personal]

As promised, I’ve made some changes to the styles on this site. There are three alternate stylesheets available: the black and white ‘fountain’, the stormy ‘arundell’, and the mysterious ‘henge’. Over on the right is a little box headed ‘?style’, where you can click on a thumbnail to load an alternate style (it’ll take a few seconds as it fetches the file and the new header image, and the browser renders the page again). I’ve tested the function with Konqueror, Firefox and IE6, so it should work for most people (though it needs javascript). Some notes on functionality:

The arundell and henge sheets use PNG transparency for the header image, which isn’t properly supported in IE6… Load them if you want, but they won’t display properly. If you want to see henge in all its glory, download Firefox
In a concession to users of IE6, the fully compatible fountain stylesheet is set as the default.
Assuming javascript and cookies are enabled, the stylesheet you select will be remembered during your visit to the site. At the moment it’s setup to forget the setting after an hour, so if you come back later you’ll get the default style again… I’m going to change this but it requires some work and testing so that one always gets an available stylesheet (in case I remove one later)

I currently have henge set in my browser, as it looks spectacular…

Finally, this feature allows for more than just switching colours and a header image… It’s going to take some work, but I should be able to modify the layout entirely, eg, to switch from two-column to three-column layout, or to hide certain navigation options, &c…