Comments on: Meticulous Design: Image Styling

By: Vivien

Vivien — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:33:07 +0000

You’re welcome, Doug. I think you will be okay with sIFR, it doesn’t require that much coding. Good luck with it.

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:25:14 +0000

Thanks for turning me on to sIFR. I read up about it on Mike Davidson’s site. Very cool. It’s things like this that make me wish I was a coder.

By: Vivien

Vivien — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:30:38 +0000

You’re very welcome, John. Thanks for mentioning the font you use in the captions. I was wondering whether it’s this free Bitmap font or another commercial one.
using sIFR will definitely make your job preparing those images simpler and less time consuming.

By: johno

johno — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:39:48 +0000

Inspiring, Vivien. And thanks for the mention. I’m actually thinking of using sIFR or font embedding for my captions (as the font I use—Unibody Smallcaps is a free one). I’m off to experiment with some of the other examples in your post.

By: Vivien

Vivien — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:01:05 +0000

Thanks, Daniel. Glad it inspired you to experiment with the image styling on your site

By: Vivien

Vivien — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:59:37 +0000

J.G. Callao, I really like the way your dashed border technique turned out. It indeed looks like scallopped stamp. You’ve got a very nice looking site yourself too.

By: J.G. Callao

J.G. Callao — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:40:41 +0000

This was definitely a good read. By coincidence, I used the dashed borders technique for the image treatment on a client’s site – you can see it here: http://jchromatic.net/clients/steph/ – and by using a dash border color that was close to the background color, it gives it a bit of a scallopped/postage stamp look.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:36:43 +0000

Some really cool effects there. Thanks for sharing the css code with us. I might even try experimenting with some of these at one of my blogs.

By: Vivien

Vivien — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:25:20 +0000

Thanks for droping by, Lauri, you’ve got an amazing blog there. I do recall seeing those effects with b&w photos turning colour, but can’t remember where I saw them. Would you mind sharing, please?

You’re most welcome, Randa. I also liked a lot those subtle shadows on nitram+nunca.

Warenwirtschaft, glad you found the CSS snippets helpful. I thought it should save time for my readers if I include them here, so I did ;)

You too are very welcome, David. I also enjoyed your logo design process, haven’t had a chance to comment yet, but I will ;)

Thanks, David. I must confess: your blog is probably the best looking Blogger design I’ve ever seen. Great job!

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:19:29 +0000

Vivien, this is a great article. I recently bashed my head about trying to wrangle out some sidebar content boxes for my blog and I finally had to break down and learn some CSS for the task.