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title: "Vega" date: 2005-07-30 17:55 modified: 2005-09-04 04:35 status: published description: > Mooquackwooftweetmeow in colour

tags: Moo­quack­woof­tweet­meow, CSS, Vega

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Yesterday I changed the site's design. I decided a while back that <a href="/thestyleswitcherisdead" title="The Style Switcher is Dead; Long Live CSS">I didn't want multiple styles any more</a>. </p>
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The main idea behind <a href="/workinprogress" title="Work-in-progress">Sirius, an alternate style that never got off the ground</a>, was to add a bit of colour to the site. Of course, being me, I couldn't decide on which colour to use so I decided to have them rotate per page. I picked some colours and applied them as background colours in Sirius; here I've used them mainly as text colours but also as the colour of the background image. <ins><a href="/vega2" title="Vega 2">And the background colours.</a></ins> I'll let you figure out the criterion for each page's colour yourself. </p>
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The overall design of Sirius was mainly inspired by <a href="http://stopdesign.com/log/2004/06/08/reloaded.html">Stopdesign v3</a>, but my <a href="http://gimp.org">GIMP</a> mojo is far too limited to match that sort of detailed quality. So I've decided to stick with the more minimalistic style that I'm reasonably good at. </p>
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I call the new style <em>Vega</em>. Yes, it's very similar to Arcturus (it's actually just a modification of Arcturus) but it is a distinctly different style. Arcturus' “starburst” logo has been kept as the background image. I was going to also use it as the site's icon thereby making it into an all-out Mooquackwooftweetmeow logo, but it doesn't look very distinct at 16 pixels square. Besides, Mooquackwooftweetmeow is just a collection of stuff by me so it's OK to continue using the “GKN” emblem. </p>