Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Now that LJ supports HTML in free text sidebar components, I've been tweaking the design of my blog a little.

A recent addition is a scriptless and Flashless Twitter badge. Found at BunnyHeroLabs, the badge creator generates an image with your latest twittering, and adds some HTML that links to your Twitter page. I tweaked the colours, and some of the badge HTML...

It's not perfect, but it'll do for now. Now if only LJ would let me link to Flash...

I'm feeling quite pleased with myself.

I've been delving into the mysteries of S2 and have been working out how to add custom HTML to a layout sidebar. The first fruits of my endeavours are now online, and I've add one of Flagrant Disregard's Flickr badges.

There's a lot of help in the new s2expressive community, which showed me how to create a new S2 style from an existing one, and how to add new customtext areas to my layout.

( Here's how I put it all together... )

And here's one I made earlier.