There’s now a second pink-toned stylesheet available for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of Shari Hes (who actually sent it to me last week, but it needed a few slight tweaks to get it to behave under Internet Explorer).

I’ve also implemented A List Apart’s stylesheet switcher, so now you can choose which style of pink you like best — or, if the pink is a bit much for you, I’ve also put the “old-school” all-greys design in the switcher. Just cast your eyes over to the sidebar, and pick a style, any style: thanks to the magic of CSS, JavaScript, and cookies, whatever style you choose will stick with you for as long as you like. Sure, this is nothing new around the web, but it’s the first time I’ve done it, so I’m kind of excited.

In a geeky sort of way. :)

One of my favorite bits, really, is that down in the footer at the bottom of each page the contributing CSS author’s name will automatically switch depending on which stylesheet is loaded. Not that complex to do, really (just playing with span tags and display: inline; or display: none; properties), but a nice little touch.

I’ve also (finally) added a print stylesheet back into the mix. I have no real idea if anyone ever bothers to print anything from my site or not, but just on the off chance they did, it’ll be a lot more bearable now than it was (the screen stylesheets crammed everything into a really tiny column in the middle of the page…pretty icky).

Admittedly, I’m still missing a stylesheet for handheld browsers, which Kirsten requested a couple months ago. Since I don’t have a handheld to test on, I’m not sure just how small of a screen to code for, and I’m half tempted to just create a “no style” stylesheet for handhelds. Go old school! ;) Not entirely sure if that’s the best approach or not, though, so until I figure out the best approach there, that feature is still missing in action.

And that’s it for the current round of design fun. I think I’m done for a little bit.

I think.

iTunes: “Violin Concerto for Violin in E Major, BWV1042, I. Allegro” by Rees, Jonathan/Scottish Ensemble from the album Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Violin Concertos (1998, 7:43).

[See also: Manly Pink #1 | Surf like it’s 1994! | WüdiVisions | We need pink! Manly pink! | Flickr Badge in Weblog Posts ]

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