In this post I wanted to write a little bit about how this design happened. A few years ago, when Drupal 5 was the latest version, I decided to create a custom theme for my site. I found some videos bout how to modify Zen, and I used those to get started changing the CSS files. I created some images, and a (bad) logo. That’s where the header gloss came from.
My original attempt at a site
Later on, when I got a twitter account, I created some stripes as my background, and it is still on there today. I took those stripes ad used them as my background here. Everything else came from the Newsroom-Cucumber template for SquareSpace.
I used some different themes for my site when it was using Drupal 6 because I didn’t feel like upgrading my old theme (created with Zen’s old theme structure), due to some big changes. See this page at the bottom for details. Basically, it says that the version of Zen I was using was so old that the developers had forgotten to make it easy to upgrade. If you download the theme today, it is a lot easier to upgrade. Just follow the instructions on the page.
Squarespace makes things a lot easier. I just had to set the gloss as the background for the header, set repeat-x, and margin -60px for the header, and for the main background I just set the twitter stripes and chose the secondary color, a slightly darker green. A lot easier, and no need to play around with CSS.