Transparent background and opaque text

written on March 4, 2010 in Tutorials, WWW

On a totally off-topic-to-the-title note:

1. My new theme is done and up (I like to state the obvious), and many thanks to Lani who let me use her adorable Pokemon artwork in my designs!
2. UMD kicked Duke’s ass in basketball tonight, 79-72! Sorry Duke fans, but Terps > Blue Devils. ALWAYS.
3. It’s almost Friday!

These things made my otherwise miserably long and omg-I-want-to-kill-myself week somewhat more tolerable. Again, let me know if you find bugs or errors of any sort with this theme. I wouldn’t be surprised if you did, since it was design + coded on a semi-functional brain that was in desperate need of sleep. Anyways, back on topic.

I haven’t done any tutorials/tips in a while, and as I was designing this new theme, I learned something I want to share with you all. With the arrival of CSS3, there are now so many things you can do with your designs without having to rely on images. One of these things is the opacity function. You can apply this property to pretty much any CSS selector: image, div, h2, etc. by using:
div { opacity: 0.5; }
This would give you a div with an opacity of 50%.
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Get your password while it’s hot

written on March 2, 2010 in Random

I’ve decided to use the old theme for now since my other theme was causing some problems (more on that next time…maybe), so bear with me as I work on another less controversial theme. I have several post ideas in mind, but with midterms coming up (and now the rush for a new theme in the midst of all this fiasco), I won’t be able to write them anytime soon.

Anyways, the main point of this post is to announce that I’ll be password protecting some of my more personal posts from now on. I had intended for this blog to be a mainly online friends thing, where no one I knew in real life would be reading it (since I’ve said some pretty obscene things about people in the past), and it’s sometimes frustrating that I can’t write about certain things for the fear that offline people might *stumble* across it.

So…password protected posts! I promise I’ll try to keep those at a minimum, but if you’re interested in reading those, just let me know in the comment section, and I’ll email you the password. Which would be more convenient for you as the readers? Registering at my blog and logging in to view the private posts, or me sending you a password? Let me know

Now back to designing a new layout…