I Fell from the Moon

That looks freaking awesome dude. I love the background colour and tab-style menu banner segue.

Seriously impressive. It's so shiny I couldn't help but post about how cool it is. Is this what iPhone owners feel like?

Now we're talking! Looks awesome! Would be great if you could get that glossy effect from the concept picture on the header, but still it's awesomely nice and slick.

And as I said earlier, not a big fan of the font you're using, but that might be just me.

I can't actually check the fonts til next week, but does the banner still have the carved effect to the title that the alpha seemed to?

Oh? The title on the banner looks like it's been stamped or engraved on the alpha, at least with the image quality on Mini. I assumed it was an intentional effect.

The font is Trebuchet MS. I'm more into fonts like Tahoma (looking good), Verdana (not so much, but still a good font) and Arial. Trebuchet MS is like Comic Sans MS on speed.

The best is though some of the Lucida fonts, but they are commercial and most Windows users don't have it.

Got anything with an understated authority to it? That's the feel to this theme so far in my mind.

* {
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}

Gogo!

Exactly what it says on the tin. The theme feels professional but not too business-like.

Exactly.

Very satisfied

OMG! this design is awesome!!!!! gasp!

hey!!! congratulations on being MOTW! It's about time!

I could've sworn you'd already been MOTW? Oh well, about time then. .

You make the community better for others to use, freely sharing your knowledge with others. Surely that's the definition of a member a community can be proud of?

Ah, that's what I was thinking about.

I'd like to order a BLT Sandwich.
OUCH! Aww Man! I cut myself.
DrLaunch, do you have any Band-Aid bandages?
I seem to have cut myself on your Blog Design.
You know ... what with it being rather Sharp

I like that reflective effect there on the bottom. And the Buttons / Tabs -

Sandwiched between two members of the week? So that's how they get chosen.

ToeToe, I'm currently raiding the code of this theme for my wandering gang of CSS wasteland bandits. Already learned some new stuff.

You and Sunny actually. Wide recognition is something I'm trying to avoid. My last site everyone would tell you you're a genius just for managing to log in. It's one of the reasons I don't appear on recent visitors lists or comment on MOTW frontpage posts. My first site however was so much different. You really had to do something worthwhile to get recognised.

Isn't Trebuchet - French? Isn't French supposed to be Cool and Smooth and open all sorts of doors? Uh Oh! I'm in trouble. I'd have to double check, but I think I used Trebuchet Font in one of my designs.

Seriously, is Trebuchet pronounced just like it's spelled or is it - Tre-byoo-SHAY?

That's it, Furie, steal make a lowkey, camouflaged, underground acquisition of this CSS Code and then I'll beg inquire as to the availability of the deciphered, less than Master's Degree-required version.

So, you're trying to avoid global recognition, huh? In that case, DrLaunch, Andrew and I will do our best to GET you selected so that you can enjoy a grimacing, squirmafying WEEK! Muhahahahah! We'll get you selected by going, "Whoa! Furie! How'd you insert that green, gagging Smiley in your Comment? Can I have the step by step procedure for that? You're a Genius!"

This "last site" of which you speak, is that outside of the Opera Community?

Oh, don't worry, DrLaunch ... Furie HAS been spreading the stuff ... for quite a while now.

A Neo knife? Whoa! A Keanu Reeves Matrix knife, Eh? Makes for speedier, precise BLT sandwich cutting I'll bet.

Cauterize my cut with a Blowtorch? But, but that is so extreme. If you don't have a Band-Aid, I'll just slap a strip of bacon on it.

Wont work Sunny. Ever notice how my friday and saturday posts are about quite controversial issues or have dodgy photos on them, and how I encourage swearing on my page, sprinkling my posts liberally with them? It keeps me safe from it. Plus Espen knows I don't ever want MOTW too. Yeah I've used a few of these little sites before. I prefer the smaller communities to the larger ones as people are nicer to each other in general, plus they have room to innovate.

I actually find scavenging a better way to learn than anything else. I get to pick the theme apart and see what does what then, playing with it in my own time and applying what I've learned in other ways. In this case I learned about the mainwrap element and saw how using it can directly benefit the coding of my DP-2 theme when I get to work on it next week. Have a look through the code people use Sunny and, if there's something you're not sure of, just ask about it. You'd be amazed how much you can learn simply by seeing what others have done often enough.

Okay, just one thing ... now how exactly did you say scavenging ... Uhhh, that is to say, how is Code observing done? Where exactly is this CSS Peephole?

Okay, I'm familiar with - View > Source Code.
Is THAT to what you're referring?
But, that's like every atom of Code in the Page, right?
I thought there was a way to view ONLY what people have in their Blog's CSS area.

I thought you knew how to do that? I use that rather than source code as it's easier to read on mobile. I wont post it here as it encourages outright stealing instead of learning in the wrong hands but I'll mail it to you. It taught me everything I know.

Suntana, http://files.myopera.com/username/user.css - for instance: http://files.myopera.com/amnith/user.css ( Although you won't find much more than 1 line there )

Alright! Thanks, guys! I got it now.

Just out of curiosity, why is this possible so easily?
In other words, why is this availability of everyone's CSS Code NOT blocked by the Opera Community? Would it affect / hinder something in the Opera Community's operation if they blocked the availability of everyone's CSS Code?

CSS cannot be hidden. If one could not read the source of the CSS, browsers wouldn't be able to read it either. It's just the way CSS works.

CSS can be written so that people have to do an effort to be able to read it. For instance:

.myclass {
padding: 0 10px;
background: #212121;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
}

This can be written like:

.myclass{padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;background-color:#212121;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold;}

Ok, not that much harder to read, but imagine having gigantic classes, and it gets quite hard to read in length.

I much prefer to write like that. I've only got 5524 characters at a time to pull anything off in so every space and line break counts.

I see, Amnith. In recent times, I encountered the perfect example of what you're saying regarding making it purposely more difficult for others to read the CSS. One of my OC friends used to have a 100% custom Blog Design. The person who had created it encountered health problems or something and couldn't finish my friend's design. There were things left that were bugging her. So, she asked me to fix it.

Not knowing CSS anywhere near enough to fix things, I told her I could only create her a new design from scratch ... in conjunction with an Opera theme, of course. Out of curiosity, I told her to send me her Blog's custom CSS. I copied & pasted it into an MS Word Doc. It was 13 pages of CSS Code! And I'm NOT talking 13 pages of organized Code. It was like 1 gigantic BLOCK of tightly-packed CSS Code. I immediately thought at the time that it must have been by design to compact it / jumble it up like that for the sake of making it difficult to be deciphered by others.

What I do is to get an element right, then pack it into a .css file that I keep on my phone and in my files, importing that.

The main structure of my phone screen theme is packed in one now, with more bits getting added as I clean it up, and I'm working on putting together a few celebratory skins for the screen area for events like Christmas, New Years, Valentine's etc.

The problem lies in encoding as my lightest text editor is a beta that randomly forgets what it's meant to do and sets a new encoding that I wont find out about until the upload produces nothing workable.

13 pages? And I thought mine needed cutting down...

Yep, 13 pages because anything and everything that was accessible, down to the About Page, was 100% customized.

Is that typical on 100% customized designs, DrLaunch? Is that how much Code your designs have ... enough Code to fill up 13 pages on an MS Word Doc?