Andrew’s Mac Tips Weblog

I suddenly found that Safari would quit if I clicked a button or control on a Web 2.0 site like LooseStitch or Back Pack.

A while back when I was trying Getbuzzword, an Adobe installer popped up and installed a new player plugin, so I suspected that; dreading the thought of somehow reverting to an earlier version.

Turns out though that the fix was to re-visit the PithHelmet preferences where I recently switched the block mode from Safer to (the less safe) Faster.

That’ll teach me to be impudent.

Hark at me with all the panicking– this is the first glitch I’ve had in months!

A long time ago I decided to add a new section to the Mac Tips site called Web Based Services. I chose at the time to give it a look that was different to the main site; a lot of the elements are called from the same javascript files, but presented in a different style.

I wanted a clean Mac interface look for the new section so I reverse engineered the iTunes interface.
 

 
The main body was pure white and the buttons and links were as subtle as I could make ‘em. Revisiting it now though, it looks a little dreary. I wanted to “crisp” it up a little; make the sidebar more different from the body, while at the same time not draw too much attention to it, and make the buttons more distinctive.

I tinkered with colors and spacing and so on in the CSS, all the time zeroing in on a look that ended up quite like (you guessed it) iTunes. I guess you can’t beat the classics.
 

 
It’s not a carbon copy if iTunes though; the shade of blue is less in your face and the dividing line is more discrete. Right now I’m pleased with the result. So pleased that after some more tweaking I might revamp this Wordpress blog to the same style, so as to be less massaged Kubrick and more watered down Mac OS.

Andrew’s Mac Tips — Some Great Web-Based Services