Say hello to Vicky01 (with default gravatars)

If you’re looking at my site (http://piepalace.ca/blog), you’ll notice that I’ve changed the theme. Vicky01 (which I may eventually make freely available) is a retro style theme. It currently supports Gravatars and is fairly CSS heavy. Sadly, most of the images that I’ve used to make it are copyrighted.

If you have any comments or criticism, please post ‘em here. I’m particularly interested if it looks wonky in any particular browser, or if you’re able to make it display errors. In either case, please supply an URL.

Update: Since roughly 0% of the folks who comment on this blog have registered a gravatar, I’ve added default gravatars. If someone without a gravatar posts, the site hashes their email address, and uses that number to decide on a default gravatar. The default gravatar is consistent across comments.
If this annoys any of you, let me know.

4 Responses to “Say hello to Vicky01 (with default gravatars)”

  1. Posted by Patrick D
    2007.Sep.22 @ 18:13

    I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.7 on the Mac, and when I mouse over the story titles, they turn to italics.

    Otherwise, looks good.

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  • Posted by Cath
    2007.Sep.25 @ 11:21

    takes forever (ok, maybe 10-15 seconds) for gravatars to load.

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  • Posted by e
    2007.Sep.25 @ 13:05

    @Patrick D: Thta was sort of intentional. I’d like to be able to denote that the title is a link without actually underlining it. I may go for a slight colour change instead.

    @Cath: The Gravatar peeps don’t seem to have thrown enough bandwidth at their servers. There are some wordpress plugins that cache the gravatar images. I’ll see about installing one of those.

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  • Posted by Cath
    2007.Sep.25 @ 13:32

    Thanks, e. Have to admit, this is the first time I’ve been back in about 3 weeks – you kind of threw me at first!

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