Another month, another design. I'm calling this one Techno Tuesday (apologies to the excellent comic strip) because of the font choice—it's AUDimat—and because I started on it last Tuesday night. This iteration plays around with some elements that I used in the Summer Blues design a while back, specifically the fixed column that contains navigation and such (only this time it's on the left).
This is the first design of my site to use sIFR. I tend to dislike sIFR, but I wanted the permalinks to be in AUDimat and that was the only simple way to do it. It should be easier by now, but at least this works for the most part. Implementation wasn't that much fun and I probably won't use it again except for a specific case like this.
This design was inspired by "A Sea of Red", a photo taken by the extremely talented Cindy and posted to Flickr. When I saw the photo last week I immediately wanted to use it as the basis of a design and went to work. Thankfully, Cindy gave me permission to use it and it has been abstracted into the background of this new design.
If you want to view the site in a more simplistic fashion, the "toggle high contrast" option from the previous two designs has been changed to a "toggle background" function in this design. You can find the link in the footer of every page—it will remove the background image. It actually looks pretty nice on plain white too.