Style
Ah yes. The whole freakin' reason for this iteration of squarehappy. I'll never have to redesign this site because this site can have unlimited designs. All I have to do is decide which is the "main design". Customize your squarehappy by choosing one of the styles below. You could also have squarehappy load a random style on each page you visit, or perhaps you're a minimalist and would like no style at all.
Control Room
I imagined myself in a Cold War-era, Soviet submarine, resting serenely on the ocean floor. That's kind of morbid, but I really pulled out all the stops on this one, in terms of design and the complexity of the CSS involved. Don't know why I had this one on the backburner for so long.
Posted on 06.19.2006 | Read more about this style
Four Tone Mantis
Originating as an entry in the The Style Contest, Four Tone Mantis has been repurposed as yet another style for squarehappy. No point in throwing a perfectly useful design. Reduced, reused, and recycled: Four Tone Mantis is all of those things. And I'm a re-re.
Posted on 06.24.2006 | Read more about this style
Live
After seeing a live Judy Garland album cover in vibrant orange, proclaiming "JUDY! JUDY! JUDY!" I decided I wanted to recreate the feel of music advertising in the early days of recording. Live was the default style for squarehappy v2 when it first opened for business.
Posted on 00.00.0000 | Read more about this style
Makeup
This design is currently being tested for compatibility and load times. Use at your own peril, or just use a browser better than IE.
Posted on 02.15.2007 | Read more about this style
Morning Trees
Art requires commitment to vision, and this design used to be something else entirely. We're not only better off, but the complexity bar has been raised even higher. In spite of that, this design required practically no IE hacking or tweaking. Hope you like purple.
Posted on 08.24.2006 | Read more about this style
Smoke
Featuring my favorite color scheme, Smoke is low on images, high on CSS. Since it makes extensive use of dotted borders, IE users may find it too ugly too bear. This design takes a few advanced concepts and wrings every last bit of usefulness out of them.
Posted on 10.14.2006 | Read more about this style
The Times
I've always enjoyed doing the cheeseball themed styles and this one is no exception. Yep, it's supposed to look like a newspaper. Exactly like a newspaper. I've always considered fixed width layouts the sissy way out, and this is also the first one I've done since I can remember.
Posted on 10.19.2005 | Read more about this style
Wasteland
Wasteland is my first fixed width layout in quite some time. So I took it to an extreme, representing our urge to express ourselves amidst the crushing urban claustrophobia. Don't read into it that much; I just wanted something a bit stylish and thematic.
Posted on 10.18.2005 | Read more about this style