homage to mojo
When I overhauled this site’s look a month or so ago I appealed for help choosing the colours. Like picking the right drapes, it’s all a bit beyond me.
Fortunately, help arrived in the form of a hitherto unknown reader (or possibly random passer-by) of this site, Gary. He suggested that:
How about using the colours from your much loved, much photographed macchiato? That distinctive green and white cup and saucer, those coffee colours – creams and rich browns and perhaps even the gold trim on the saucer. I think they just might work…
What a good idea, I thought. Why didn’t I think of that? (Answer: I’m not a designer.) So now, after several weeks of painstaking and clumsy hacking, I present my overly literal interpretation of Gary’s idea.
I’m not sure if I like it. The green is a bit strong in such large quantities. Using Javascript to get almost infinitely resizable curved corners is nifty but causes an irritating flash on loading each page as the script’s DOM manipulation kicks in. The corners are broken in IE6. And the woodgrain background is just cheesy. But kind of nice.
Actually, maybe I do like it. I think it can be hacked a bit to make it a little less overpowering. But I can’t be bothered right at the minute.
So, I present to you: my homage to Mojo.
Matt
22 October 2006, 18:51 #
Hi Alan!
It’s great to think that sometimes we mean more then just a quick pick-me-up coffee for our customers. Wow, we have our own web style now! Very Impressed.
Matt.
Alan
23 October 2006, 13:06 #
Thanks Matt.
Although you forgot to mention me just how broken it looked in all browsers except mine though: I’ve just got hold of a Windows machine today and fixed it (the JavaScript to build the corners was on my iBook, meaning that only that machine would see the site correctly. Doh!
And the font for headings needs changed too: it looks atrocious in Windows.
Mr Reasonable
23 October 2006, 20:41 #
Makes me thirsty just looking at it!
Alan
23 October 2006, 22:20 #
Getting a Pavlovian response from Mr Reasonable. Good.
susan
28 October 2006, 08:17 #
I’m finding this a lot easier to read than the last “do”. Though I’d prefer the teal bit to be a browny bit and something else to be teal more of the coffee colours.
Alan
28 October 2006, 09:13 #
Yeah, I’ve got to lighten up the background of the main box – it’s hard going reading lots of text at once in there.
Maybe I should increase the font size while I’m at it.