Spring is on the way (though not according to the weather today: dull and grey all day long!) and it’s time for another cosmetic change here on the ol’ blog.
Nothing much at all has changed under the covers (literally, nothing) but the site has had a bit of a colourful facelift. Gone is the old, stark black on white super-minimal theme (though maybe not gone forever) and in is a shiny, new springy (not bouncy, in the flavour of Spring) landscape.
First, I’m no artist! That said, it was fun playing around in Photoshop all day instead of the usual code-editor. The drawing was done pretty much only with basic fills & vector masks so in theory it could be scaled up to any size. Being much more at home in Illustrator, it’s certainly nice to be able to do everything in vector: Pen tool, vector shapes, fills, layer styles, etc. beats pixel-pushing, for me at least.
For the inevitable time, somewhere down the line, when I change the theme again, here’s a wee screenshot of what it looks like.
Screenshot of Spring Theme at cowburn.info
Anyhow, tatty-bye for now. 
6 Comments on New, Springy Theme!.
nice work…I need to practice my photoshop skills too =( have just about none
Thanks! I love playing around in Photoshop/Illustrator even if the usual result is closing a file without saving it (because I’m not overly artistically gifted).
I love the new design! Recently I’ve been on a outdoors website theme kick, I just can’t get enough of them! I wish the sidebar on your site was easier to locate though…
Evan, it’s all part of the fun… disappearing sidebar included.
Not an artist, teh… and I’m not a douche posting a comment on your website.
very nice — i especially like the sidebar