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Preparing for “Kiln Sitter’s Diary”

I have now changed the color scheme here.   The just-previous template change was based on the current template for nfoWorks: Pursuing Harmony.

Now I am adjusting the appearance for what I will use as the basis for Kiln Sitter’s Diary.   This is the most-important blog for matching and then improving on the template as I migrate to a new blog engine, because it is related to Vicki’s artistic expression.

To arrive at the new color scheme, I looked at those established under the CSS-based template for these pages.  Then I tried out samples of various combinations, resulting in this table of “swatches:”

color: #9E5205 bg: #f5deb3	color:#660000 bg:#f6f6f6	color:#660000 bg:#f5deb3
color: #9E5205 bg: #f5e39e	color:#800000 bg:#f6f6f6	color:#800000 bg:#f5deb3
color:brown	color:chocolate	color:#800000 bg:#f5deb3
color:#800000 bg:beige	color:sienna	color:#800000 bg:#f5e39e
color:#660000 color:brown bg:beige	color: #9E5205	color:#800000 bg:tan
color:#660000	color:saddlebrown	color:#800000
color:#999966 bg:beige	color:#666699 bg:beige	color:tan bg:beige
color:brown bg:orange	color:brown bg:darkorange	color:darkred bg:beige
color:darkred bg:orange	color:darkred bg:darkorange	color:#990000 bg:beige
		color:#cc0000 bg:beige
color:beige bg:#663300

I should have done this sort of thing before now.  It beats repetitive previewing of the full template.   Also, I could have used the FrontPage color picker more efficiently than I did by trying out color names instead. 

After narrowing down on some selections, it is easier to then confirm with a Blogger template preview, see what doesn’t work, and then look for more combinations.

I did have to do some full previews before I obtained something I was willing to operate with for now.  I will now take this template over to Kiln Sitter’s Diary, eliminating the last of my unsuccessful attempts to use a completely CSS-based template.  This will also allow me to have the Diary in better shape for however long it takes between when I shut off Blogger and have the replacement blog engine working over there.

[update 2010-04-30T03:45Z There were some fine adjustments needed in the title block at the top of each blog page and in the bottom block beneath each page.  I wanted that flat before replicating the template on Kiln Sitter’s Digest.
 update 2010-04-30T03:04Z I needed to update the template so that the beige background under posts showed through.  Then I need to set the default background of the swatch table to white so that beige wouldn’t show through where it wasn’t expected.]

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