Jelle Druyts

If you're reading this through an aggregator: there should be no difference whatsoever for you, carry on

If you've actually fired up that trusted ol' webbrowser (have a drink to wash away the dust), you might have noticed that I finally got around creating a new look for my site/blog. I'd been planning on doing that for a while now, especially because the sidebar was growing too large and I wanted the individual panels to be collapsible. Note that I can collapse some panels by default now, but I just can't seem to decide which ones

So I built sort of a "webpart" look-and-feel into dasBlog (without the flashy "moving" webparts though, and unfortunately it also doesn't "remember" your settings - maybe later). I snatched a few images and ideas, drew or enhanced some myself, scripted the collapsing and then spent far too much time playing with the css to make the whole thing look good. It still has a few minor quirks I ought to work out (mostly in the admin area) but all in all, I'd say it looks pretty nice. It looks best in IE (due to the gradient filters at the top) but it also seems to work great in Mozilla's new Firefox 0.9.

So how do you like it?

I've named the theme BlogXP, here's a zip file if you want to use it yourself (go wild):