Today I wanted a change. It’s a Sunday, and on
the basis of purifying me broken iBlog template I decided I’d tweak around a
bit. If your not into websites, or their design, you won’t get this; webpages
just look different sometimes. Internet Explorer to Safari, Internet Explorer to
Internet Explorer, OS X to Windows XP, Firefox to Opera… who to please? Well,
some people hack-around and create a happy-medium, personally I don’t have the
know-how to sit down and decide where to put the <!–[if IE]>’s so
instead, I’ll start from scratch Keep It Simple Stupid, as they
say.So, there I am about to trash the
purple “Kalamazootopia” template when I say – no. I’m not making my site for
anyone but myself (is that a sad thing?) and I’m not bowing to anyone on
Internet Explorer… grow up, get Firefox.And
this is where Coppola came from, the five minutes in which I had a turn around
feeling “lets do something new” I scribbled (read on) the idea of a simple and
pretty little web
template…Scribbled; well, an artist
would rush for pencil or paints, I ran for Adobe GoLive and within 20 minutes
had created a cross-browser loving, gradient pending, super-fast rendering
beauty of a blog template. High on this idea, I turned to a
post I had read earlier this morning about a really neat (and free)
iBlog template, with 6 flavours, some ‘fella just made, no money involved, he -
like me – is fed up of seeing the default iBlog template so he created a
rights-free (or creative commons licensed) template. Whatta’
guy!Moreover, as a Bonsai fan-boy I want to get closer
to the Heillman inside
me, a free download-able, semi-supported, easily understood template is what I
wanted, is what I’ve created… so this is my Kubrick. Ladies and
gentleman I give you – Coppola (beta
v.0.1).

After Francis or Sofia, you decide. I’ve made
this template because I’m bored of bland designs and wanted to do something
interesting this Sunday. I hope this gives you immense joy, It gave me a kick in
the teeth a few times – yet it’s not as buggy as I would have thought.
Cross-browser, cross OS – I’m no “Web-Designer Genius” but I like
it.As an afterthought, I’ve decided to
detect and forward future IE users to a page with screenshots of how
Kalamazootopia should look (on Safari), and how it does look on Internet
Explorer.