Introduction
So this is my entry for the oswd web design template competition. I am now going to bore you with filler text that isn't really worth reading, well, some of it is i guess, but this paragraph is kinda boring. Lets put an image in to spice things up; Wow look-a-that! It's a image! and the text floats around it, lovely jubly, whoopedee doo! I'm struggling for things to write now so I'm gonna wrap up this paragraph and let you know the next one is prolly worth reading.
Winter
So, I'm designing a winter template, what do i do first? I look and think about stuff that reminds me of winter. I think.
- Blue for Ice
- White for Snow
- Black/dark colours for bare Trees
- Snowmen
- Snowballs
- Icicles
So I take all these things and try to put them together in a design template. I feel what I came up with has a cold, icy feel to it, aided primarily by the choice of background colour. The image of a leaveless tree also adds to the cold, winterness of it all. The style sheet is designed so that it could be used as a 'Winter Theme' for the web site. All the 'wintry' elements such as the icicles, snowflake bullet points, snowballs, the header image and the snowman are easily removed or changed to reveal a perfectly normal looking template. You could even save the style sheet as "winter.css" and have your web site apply it during and around the Christmas period.
css + xhtml
Of course the template validates as correct css and xhtml 4.01 transitional. This is something you don't see with many web sites but is becoming more popular thankfully. all templates / sites that i make adhere to these standards and it is something i feel strongly about. it is something that i feel everyone should be aware of, to make the internet a better place...
The design itself is based Entirely on css. Not a single table here. This means that the site will also collapse nicely should the viewer not have a browser that supports css, or for some reason the css does not load.
