hmmmmm, michael, whose dog wants to be on the radio, doesn’t read this site in the morning but waits ’til later in the day. I wonder if it’s because of my new goth design with the metallicky background images and all? Maybe it’s like eating Chinese food for breakfast?
The design is really rather darker than I am as a person, I was just experimenting to try and simulate the look of light-on-metal on a computer screen.
My amateur graphic design analysis went something like this:
Looking at metal stuff, it has essentially a monochromatic color makeup. The perception of metal is basically a glint of white that fades to gradually darker shades of grey. When trying to reproduce this as a web page background, I didn’t want to use some massive image that would cover the entire background. Enlarging a smaller image using an HTML tag destroyed the subtle glint. So repeating the image was what I ended up with.
Then when I attempted to place text over images that consisted of alternating black and white I found that neither light nor dark text could be read – a major flaw in the design. So I had to darken the images to make the white text readable, causing the images to look like plastic or curtains or metal painted black. Good thing no one is paying me for this!