about this layout
This layout was completed on August 22nd of 2006.
"She sits alone by a lamp post, trying to find a thought that's escaped her mind.
She says 'there's the one I love the most', but Stipe's not far behind.
She lets me in only tell me where she's been, when she's had too much to drink.
I say that I don't care I just run my hands through her dark hair and I pray to God
you gotta help me fly away. And just let her cry, if the tears fall down like rain.
Let her sing, if it eases all her pain. Let her go, let her walk right out on me.
And if the sun comes up tomorrow, let her be ... let her be."
That, my friends, is the lovely lyrics from Let Her Cry, a song by Hootie and the Blowfish, one of my absolute favorites. I happened to get ahold of this song and at the same time, ran across these pictures from Getty Images and I just had to do a layout out of it. I'm not sure if I created an exact representation of the song in this layout, but I love the way it turned out, design-wise. It was originally going to be green, but the song sounded more blue and the smooth ghostly effect in the pictures only seemed to work right with orange, so I put two and two together and, viola!
I also decided to let the use of brushes stand out more. Thanks to Moargh.de for the gorgeous brushes and Hybrid-Genesis for the textures. And all in all lovely turn-out. The only thing that bothers me is that it literally took me forever to figure out what colors to use for the text. If this looks funny to you, you are more than welcome to change the colors to your taste, which you can do in the style.css file, but please only change the colors. If you're not sure how to do that, suggest you just leave it alone. Enjoy your new layout!
Here is your blockquote and this is where comments, random thoughts, and of course, quotes, would go; this is what it would look like.
This layout was tested in Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla Firefox, Opera 8.5, and AOL Explorer.
Provided is a matching avatar. This is a Table layout and it can be used for whatever and there is a lot of editing room. It is 800x600 compatitble but best viewed any resolution above and works with any server that supports css files. Please do not remove the credits below or in the navigation.
how to use this layout
1. You must know how to handle HTML in order to use this layout. It is to be implemented onto the web as a premade website. This is layout cannot be used to overlay profiles, xangas, or other templated blogs.
2. Download and unzip and upload every file to a directory in your server. You may choose to use subdirectories, but in order for it to work, you must reconfigure all of the urls according to what directory that file is in. If not, then just upload all of the files in the main directory.
3. Open index.html in your web server and edit your navigation and content. All photos are in the images folder; make sure you create this directory and upload them to this folder in order for the pictures to show up.
4. Edit text areas only, coding is not to be tampered with. Save your editing and you're done! If you have problems, please contact me with questions.
things to know about this layout
1. This layout is not recommended for those new to coding and design, so if you need help, please ask for it.
2. The very first h1 is apart of the main image and must always be set with the class "h1_2" or that effect will not be fulfilled. All headers following shall only use h1 with no class.
3. There are, as you can see, two types of content styles and they shall be tagged (with the headers) as follows: main content (with no effect) is "main" (h1) and the blockquote is blockquote (h3). Keep this in mind when organizing your site.
1. ADDING or REMOVING styles, watermarks, credits, or graphics in any way is not permitted. Only content can be tampered.
2. Original coding and design may not be changed or modified.
3. Do not copy the html or css for your own personal venue.
