Back To Picture Window Template

Back to Picture Window Template. LOL
I got on the minimalistic idea with that gray Awesome Template (previous post), but found I like the transparency of the Picture Window Template rather than the boxy look of the Awesome Template.

I found a nice serene soft mountain background under the nature category.



I did have to set the posting area to semi-transparent so the background would show thru that area. I also got rid of the borders. The right column is semi-transparent by default.

Then I fiddled with a header title, which turned out to be a selection with a soft drop shadow in Paint Shop Pro 9. Got rid of the splashy purple flower avatar by profile area and added my name in a fancy font but soft dark gray.

I'll sit with that for awhile.

Awesome Templates

I'm going to try out the Awesome Templates next.


It looks like it uses different bordering effects for each section.
I really like this plain grey one with the soft shadowing around the section edges.

Screenshot:


I wonder what it looks like in IE8. Will test. (It was a tad different, but okay.)

I'm using the same Header, which is just a transparent text png file.

Turned out that I didn't find much I could do with the template that I liked. Maybe I'm tired of the boxy columns/elements look because I had that on my old template. About the only background I liked with this gray theme was a gray bokeh under the abstract backgrounds section.



I could have tried making a gray texture tile as background, but decided I just didn't want to fiddle with it anymore.