h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I only eat small, oven pizza these days. I haven't had any of the huge, UberGreese pizzas sold as fast food in over a year

mmm Pizza

meatlovers with bbq sauce

for me pizza from supermarket freezer to home oven to stomag to erm

is the food of last weeks, since I work real s****y hrs and couldn´t be bothered to cook something nice - even coffee cups get washed only when there are no more in der haus

meat lovers with bbq sauce! that sounds good!
Now I'm hungry... ya jerks!

Oooh... I could use some pizza right now...

Jim's done some really nifty things to the "Plain" skin... If you know what a style sheet is, and how to edit one, you can now choose your own colours and fonts!

I've foresaken Goo for a black background with white text in "Arial Narrow" and tasteful grey links... Very relaxing!

Hmmmm...

Wow, that sounds amaising

I clicked on his style sheet links in the Alabaster, plain, hub, goo, text or brunel thread... I still couldn't tell you what in the world I was looking at. Looked like gibberish to me!

It's pretty cool. In theory, we'll be able to come up with our own colour schemes and post them on our own webspace for others to use.

I confidently predict that when the "Programmers' Corner" find out about this we'll have several competing "configuration tools" within a week.

~whoosh~


What *was* that sound? Oh yeah... the sound of talk going right over my head...

Pretty things. Lots. Soon.

Oooooooh, pretty things!!!

When do we get to see them?

As soon as I sober up enough to produce a suitably strange Thingite-approved stylesheet.

There goes that whooshing sound again...

A stylesheet is a set of instructions to tell your browser what colours and fonts to use for a particular site. Jim has been kind enough to kludge the plain skin so we can supply our own, rather than relying on Auntie Beeb's colour choices. But it's not trivial - ness is a necessity...

I changed my colors in Brunel - not that I use that skin, mind you. I just find the standard color choice to be so irritating, so I found some more soothing colors to use.


Not the same thing as what you're talking about, is it?

Yes, except that there are a lot more things you can change; every section can have a different colour and font combination, if you so choose.

The difference is that only you see these customisations; the things you did to Brunel are also seen by other people visiting your page.

Yeah, I was trying to give Brunel users who went to my page something a little easier on the eyes...

I personally like Goo, though - I like my frames.

Me too, but I'm also getting to like this...

Gotta crash now. That's two nights in a row I haven't got to bed till well after 3am.