Finally: A new design

After blogging for more than a year with the default design of my blog software (at first bblog, now serendipity), I finally managed to create my own design. So if you are reading this in a RSS-reader, on some planet or some other place, today it's worth watching my page live in a real web browser.

As you may expect, the layout is 100% valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2. It works fine in all common browsers known to have basic support for CSS (tested in Konqueror, Mozilla Firefox and Opera). It's a well known fact that the so-called browser from Microsoft, the Internet Explorer, fails to support modern web standards, so it'll look ugly. For IE-visitors, I implemented a browser-check and they'll get a note. I've tried to create the check in a way that won't hurt browsers with user agent forging. If you see this message and aren't using the IE, I'd like to hear from you.
I don't know how this layout performs in the Internet Explorer 7 beta versions, as Microsoft doesn't provide them to the public. If you have access to those betas, I'd also like to hear about it.

For the technical side: The html is created with various text-editors, with the smarty template system used by serendipity. The graphics were edited with the great GIMP, using latest technology like the SIOX-algorithm, the sign was created with a wacom graphire graphics tablet, also in GIMP.