Public Domain
Dorothea has put her entire site into the public domain. The problem I have with doing things like that is that occasionally people will take advantage of you.
(Sorry)
Edit: It's been pointed out to me that this could be misconstrued as being nasty. It was meant as a joke, and I'm sorta hoping people take it with a sense of humour...
This isn't to say there isn't a point behind it, but the implimentation is a joke. I'm just scared about how little beyond the stylesheets I had to modify...
Edit, 20:40 2003-02-06
I've uploaded a couple of screenshots of the sites in question for the sake of the archives. Tomorrow we go back to Aq6, Revenge Of The Coloured Boxen. Hmm. I wonder if I could do a differant-designs-daily thing for a week or so...
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Laurabelle:
This really scared me before I realized that it actually still was your site, and the link I clicked on to get here, which still said Aquarionics, hadn’t metamorphosed into a link to Caveat Lector.
I guess it says something about me that I’m more scared by inconstant links than by creepie-crawlies or by the idea of monsters under the bed.
Simon Willison:
It scared the heck out of me as well :) Took a few seconds before I realised I hadn’t clicked the wrong link.
dearg:
You evil, evil man, you!
I wondered how my Aq.com favourites link had taken me to Caeat Lector. Then I woke up, so I suppose that’s a good thing…
Dorothea Salo:
No worries—I think it’s hilarious! ("Did I just click the right link?" I asked myself.) Well done!
Of course, it does kinda expose the weaknesses of the design… but I suppose I can work on that.
amy:
Scream it ain’t blue!
Aquarion:
Bah :-P
The other design isn’t blue either
Michael:
The amusing thing (to me, at least) was that I had the exact same idea. You quite handily beat me to it, but it was a tempting thought before I got to the end of Dorothea’s post where she linked to you. Good to see she was able to laugh at it!
Stuart Langridge:
Heh. Clearly my brain doesn’t interpret CSS, even if my browser does, because I didn’t notice what you’d done until I read to the bottom of the entry and, confused, took a metaphorical step back and noticed that the design had changed…
Martin Wisse:
Hmmm…
This raises a question with me,where does site design swiping start and "looking at source code to figure out neat tricks" end?
(I was only looking at Dorothea’s site just now to figure out how she did her linktable so I could adapt for a site I’m working on and not have to depend on a table based layout instead of a css based layout. ((Not being somebody who used to think much about design, other then let’s keep it readable I still need to figure out those tricks))
Paul Freeman:
Sadly, I knew about it before visiting the site (read cavlec first; I’m always behind). Wonderful redesign.
Did you change any HTML at all? Just CSS?
Aquarion:
A bit of HTML, for removing the title image and the post-info box (Permalink, trackbacks etc), but mostly it was importing CavLec’s CSS files and renaming divs in them.