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Gettysburg, originally uploaded by irishstu.

An excerpt from the Gettysburg address, taken on a recent trip to Washington DC. The Gettysburg address (the “Four score and seven years” one…) is on the south wall of the Lincoln Memorial.

Irishstu.com Redesign, originally uploaded by irishstu.

A redesign of my blog, with a more typographical theme. There’s no graphics used in the design of the site. Only external images are loaded in. Why? because I like to make life hard for myself.

Huh? No Images?

Yup, no images. The logo? that’s a type star and the equivalent to symbol. The rounded corners? CSS3. The fade around the images in the footer? CSS3. The circles around the dates? CSS3 with a really big corner radius. (I saw the date marks on Cynosura and wondered if I could duplicate the effect using only CSS3). The little speech bubble on the quotes? It’s a circular background with a comma that’s been scaled and rotated using – CSS3!

Neat tricks

There’s a few cool things I’ve tried out with CSS3, but you’ll need a decent browser to see them. For example, check out the gravatars in the comments if you’re using Safari 4.

What’s left to do?

Browser test. Pretty sure this looks awful in IE6. But meh. Tidy up the plugins Share this should look neater. More type refinements. I need to define code styles for example.