new layout: Bud

After completely changing my layout idea from yesterday, I put up a new layout today using this photo of an Easter flower. It looks fine in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, and even IE 9 displays it very nicely. IE 8 is another story of course, mucking up the rounded corners, transparent backgrounds, and text rotation. The plaid background is one I created over at COLOURlovers, and it’s available for you to download there. The Twitter icon is from Icon Dock. After banging around with a couple different WordPress plugins for displaying Google +1 buttons on entries, I finally just used Google’s simple JavaScript. The WordPress plugins either didn’t obey their settings–small image, no count–or didn’t even offer configurable settings. Google’s code for adding a +1 button with a particular look for a particular URL was extremely simple, so I don’t even know why there are dedicated WordPress plugins for it.

Let me know in the comments if you have any problems with the layout, please.