Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

I couldn’t help myself - I had to convert the technicolor blogger template I found a few entries back to Moveable Type. You can see it by clicking on the Technicolor link, or (soon) by visiting the sample blog.

Be warned, however, that the technicolor blog is somewhat processor-intensive, since the entire page changes color slightly every half-second or so. Also, it tends to leave color behind, so be sure to reload the page if you
switch to or from the Technicolor style.

The Latin text for the sample blog came from Lorem Ipsum’s Lorem Ipsum generator. If you need sample blog text, you can use the MoveableType import file I used to generate the 18 entries of my sample blog: loremipsum.txt. Note that
the entries have old dates and will not show up on the main page of a fresh
blog unless you change the MTEntries tag of that page to include lastn=”7″ or whatever number of entries you desire. I set MT to do the dates in Portuguese for that blog; it was the closest offering to Latin, but is different enough to do the nonsense-Latin theme justice.

I’m making a separate blog for Technicolor because it requires javascript, just like the style switcher, and I had to mesh the two scripts somewhat in my
main blog to get them to work together. I also made my sidebar unusually narrow, because that’s my blog style. In the sample blog, it’s wider and includes
the MT default calendar. Full instructions for using the stylesheet and javascript are included in those files: colorswitcher.css and colorswitcher.js. (As always, right-click and download if you can’t see the raw file in your browser.) You may want to cut out my instructions once you’ve followed them to reduce download time. You must leave Eric Costello’s header, however - those are his terms of use.

I’ve also changed my approach to backwards-browser compatibility again, so the Netscape 4 Khaki stylesheet has been taken down. This time, I put in a persistent stylesheet that looks almost like no style at all (persistent.css, if you’re curious). That way, it lurks underneath all the switchable styles, doing (hopefully) nothing, and for users with backwards browsers, it shows up just like Netscape 1.1. Yes, it’s backwards-compatibility with a vengeance. I was actually trying to fix the download delay problem; I’m not sure yet whether I’ve succeeded.

I almost forgot to mention that I made a second LCARS stylesheet, too. Like the first, it only works with Mozilla, Mozilla-derivatives like Chimera, and possibly Netscape 7.

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