In addition to Retro Glass, the Wordpress theme I’ve been using for a while, Blue X is a recent theme I’ve created. I just finished with Blue X a day or so ago, its the current theme running on my personal blog (on May 8, 2008).

Blue X is also available for download, check it out and toss it up on your own blog.

Retro Glass is a Wordpress theme I’ve been working on for some time now. I’ve been getting it ready to release to the public (for use on other blogs powered by Wordpress). Today I’m proud to say its ready!

Checkout the Retro Glass page for more information on the Wordpress theme.

Last year I made a halloween themed desktop background for the Mac, it had an Apple logo shaped pumpkin with iPod bats flying around. It looked outdated so I decided to make a new one. I’ve got a preview below.

Text link to Download it! (1680×1050, easily downsized to fit most macs).

I’ve compiled it from images from NASA of the sky and various galaxies, then added some lines to mimic the default Tiger backgrounds. Its got a leopard look to it (the Time Machine space background) that Apple seems to be using to promot Leopard. I personally can’t wait for Leopard on the 26th (just a week away!!!) so I’ve designed this background to bring a lil’ Leopard to Tiger.

Update: I’ve just realiszed after posting this, that some of you may like my background without certain features, so I made one with each and you can get them from the list below.

1. Leopard Sky - A simple plain background (also great if you wanted to add something your self).
2. Leopard X Sky - The one from above, the basic background with an “X” in the lower left.
3. Leopard Halloween - The sky background with a centered pumpkin.
4. Leopard X Hallwoeen - The sky background with a pumpkin in the center and an “X” in the lower left.

I’ve enabled comments for this post to see what people think my background. Leave a comment if you like it! (Hopefully I won’t be spammed like crazy)

I’ve changed the theme my site is using to one I have created and designed my self. Its the one I’ve got selected right now. I call this theme Retro Glass and if I don’t find too many problems with it I’ll probably put it up somewhere for download. It still has a few bugs that need to be worked out but as it gets better I’ll update the one I’ve got running on my site.

If you have any interest in this theme email me (robert hodgen [at] gmail [dot] [com]) and I’ll explain it to you and maybe even send you a copy If you find any bugs (like it doesn’t render right) drop me an email (I’ve got a mac so I can’t test IE, but who cares?).

Well, it turns out that didn’t really work… I’m talking about this post.

Putting multiple background elements into a single style in a CSS file does not work (with most browsers). It works with browsers like Safari that support CSS3. CSS3 will have the ability to have multiple backgrounds in one style. Until more browsers support CSS3 you’ve gotta use multiple div’s or span’s to get multiple images.

It took me a little while to figure out a fool-proof way of getting this working with these on the particular wordpress theme I was designing.

So I was working on a theme for Wordpress (not the current one you see on my site, but a new one) and I needed to have three images set to the background for a class. The CSS editor I’m using (CSSEdit) didn’t have an option to do this. I searched around on the web and found several solutions. The one that I found to work the best was to just list them all like this:

background: url(images/post-top.gif) no-repeat 0 top, url(images/post-bottom.gif) no-repeat 0 bottom, url(images/post-span.gif) repeat-y;

This allowed me to have an image at the top, one to span the gap and another at the bottom. It’s no longer valid CSS but it works. I’m also not sure what all this works with, but I know it works with Safari (webkit) 3.0.