So I decided it was time for a change on the blog. I found this template on http://scrapgrounds.blogspot.com (as I was blogstalking Aliese, whom I believe I went to hs with, but don’t really remember, so I hope that’s ok…) that I really liked, and it was so easy to put up! The only problem was that the color behind my text was really bright, so there wasn’t really enough contrast to easily read my blog. Of course, I asked Cory for some help.

He checked out the code, and realized it was all done in CSS, which he has been working with a lot lately. To make a somewhat long story short, he realized the easiest thing to do was make a new layer that was slightly transparent between the text and the background, which would then dull the color of the background. However, we wanted the edges to remain bright, so in creating the transparent layer, he had to make another layer of total transparency (on the edges, so when placed over the background it’d remain clear), then blur the two layers together, and save it all as one png file that we could add in to the code. Make sense? Probably not, because I can’t explain it, but I’m really excited about the results.

Yes, yes, I do believe genius is the word. Thank you Cory, I love you. And thanks to Aliese, too, for providing a fun new background! Whadda y’all think?