New header graphics
7:18 pm on the 5th of February, 2007I’ve just spent a wee while after dinner playing with some new headers for the site, they’re randomly selected from a list of 5, so just hit refresh and you should eventually cycle through them all, I think full sizes of all of the images are available on my flickr photostream. Those of you who only read my blog through an aggregator won’t care at all about this. On the subject I’ve been using Google Reader for the last week or so, I have to say it’s much friendlier than bloglines with a lot of nice features, such as marking posts as read just by scrolling past them.
[tags]random headers, flickr, google reader, bloglines, aggregators[/tags]
Tags: aggregators, bloglines, flickr, google-reader, random-headers
February 5th, 2007 at 9:10 pm on the 5th of February, 2007
Nice header Stuart! Did you make this yourself or can you up-load it?
February 5th, 2007 at 9:23 pm on the 5th of February, 2007
The images themselves were put together in Photoshop, and the magic that rotates them randomly is just a little piece of code I pinched from a php tutorial, which I dropped into my header template. I’m using what is pretty much the default Kubrick theme for Wordpress with a few of my own modifications and additions.
I don’t know how much access WPMU gives you to themes and I seem to remember from experimenting that you can’t do much with the Kubrick theme, but I’m sure David Gilmour could point you in the right direction.
I’ve put all of the header images on flickr, it gives an idea of how I’ve put the site together. It’s all smoke and mirrors, not nearly as clever as it might have been.
February 8th, 2007 at 1:40 pm on the 8th of February, 2007
Where was the one of the sea taken?
February 8th, 2007 at 1:48 pm on the 8th of February, 2007
Cape Foulwind, SouthIsland, NZ.
Do you know the others?
February 16th, 2007 at 12:05 pm on the 16th of February, 2007
The armadillo, obviously. Though personally speaking, I fail to see why Glasgow is so proud of a new building which rips off a far better building that is 100 years old.
Barney at belhaven
Peru somewhere ?
And best of all, Ben Lui, looking mighty fine.
Do I win a prize?
ps - the lack of a recently commented page meant I almost missed this…
February 16th, 2007 at 1:17 pm on the 16th of February, 2007
Full marks.
The Armadillo (Clyde Auditorium) is seen in reflection on the side of the new BBC Scotland building. You’ll have to let me in on a secret though - what 100 year old building is it a rip off of?
The one in Peru is from Amantani Island on Lake Titicaca.
I knew you’d get Ben Lui.
The recently commented page is still there but I removed the link to it because it scoops up all the spam comments that are still in moderation as well as legitimate comments.
Of course you could subscribe to my comments feed and then you wouldn’t have to keep checking for changes.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pm on the 16th of February, 2007
Oh, and no, you don’t win a prize. Sorry.
February 20th, 2007 at 6:06 pm on the 20th of February, 2007
Well, to me it looks like the Sydney Opera House. Only two dimensional. I’m sure it leaks less, but it’s not as nice.
I’d have deserved shot it I’d failed to get Ben Lui. I’ve been up both central gully and the right hand ridge in winter.
February 20th, 2007 at 6:34 pm on the 20th of February, 2007
I thought of the Sydney Opera House, but it isn’t that old, about 40 years old I think.
February 26th, 2007 at 6:14 pm on the 26th of February, 2007
A quick look at wikipedia told me you were right - I wonder where I get than from? Billy Connelly probably. Still, I stand by my original sentiment. The Sydney Opera House, leaks and all, is a far nicer and more iconic building.
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