Art Scatter new looks: a fuzzy stab at comparison
Try as he might, Mr. Scatter can’t figure out a good way to let you look at the three redesign possibilities we’re considering for Art Scatter.
Regulars Brett and Charles have both asked for such a thing, and it’s not just a reasonable request, it’s a no-brainer. Unfortunately Mr. Scatter’s brain just says no when he tries to figure out how to make it happen.
The best he can manage is a fuzzy screen photo of each candidate taken with his inadequate Blackberry phone, in the hopes that the pictures will help jog your memories back to what you saw in the last couple of days.
What you see, from the top, is:
Copyblogger, the jazziest of the candidates, with red headlines and a tabloidy staccato feel.
Veryplaintext 3.0, with a crisp, beautifully design serif type and an old-newspaper feel.
Artemerging, the theme Art Scatter has had since its birth but is getting ready to shed.
And, you’re reading this in Modern, the third candidate and today’s theme.
Mr. Scatter sincerely hopes this helps. And he promises not only to make a decision soon, but to explain how and why.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
If you have a Mac, you can use the Grap application to take a screenshot of any window, including a browser window. Then you just save it and put it any document/blog post you wish. There’s also a 3rd party app called Paparazzi that can capture a whole web page as an image. http://derailer.org/paparazzi/
February 6th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I recently also bought a premium theme, Thesis, which has given me tons of flexibility in how to display and format things. You can find that here: http://diythemes.com/
February 7th, 2010 at 2:08 am
If you’re using a Mac, as Charles noted, you can use the Grab utility that’s on every Mac, or just hit Command-option-4 to take a snapshot of whatever part of the window — in this case, presumably, the first two options under consideration — you want to capture. Here’s the instruction from the Help file: ACTION SHORTCUT
Take a picture of the whole screen
Command (⌘)-Shift-3
Take a picture of part of the screen
Command (⌘)-Shift-4, and then drag the crosshair pointer to select the area. Continue to press the mouse button, release the keys, and then press Shift, Option, or the Space bar while you drag to resize the selection area. When you are ready to take a picture, release the mouse button.
To cancel, press Escape.