I've added a new template, which I worked on today. I'm really liking it, and it's very relevant to me as I'm planning my wedding for the year 2005... but well... take a look. It's very lilac, dreamy, and says "Dreaming of my Wedding Day"

Well, the computer's back up and running, with new hard drive and Windows XP. Since I've changed just about everything else, I decided to change my desktop, and make a customised (to my colour scheme) wallpaper. And because I'm so kind, I've made it available to you in the wallpapers section. It's the pink Nicole Kidman one. Be aware, it's an oddity for me to be having pink anything, as I'm a blue girl. But for those girly pink girls, there's a lovely pink wallpaper up there. :-) Oh, and the photo of Nicole was from this site. The manipulation is all mine. Enjoy. :-)

My computer is playing up at the moment, crashing, losing settings, generally being a pain in the arse. So I changed over to a better browser as I'd lost my pop-up blocking google toolbar, and am now primarily using Mozilla Firebird rather than IE 6.0. I will continue to check my designs in IE, as I know a lot of people use them. So for most of today, I probably won't be at my computer, but that probably won't make a lot of difference to the usual running of the site. :-)

I found a new image site, and I've been through and picked out loads of favourites already. The image on this layout (named Coffee Cup) is from StockStash and I've fallen in love with it already! This layout includes a co-ordinating blockquote for your quotes and/or lyrics, a colour-co-ordinated bold, italic and underline feature as well as removable image links. A reminder though to respect my copyright as a designer and not to remove my link, or the link to StockStash or to your host. Thanks!

A note to listings sites: I have moved all listings links to the resources page. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Well, I forgot to mention on the Coffee Cup bit that that was my 150th layout! Nevermind, this is my 151st layout! Wooohooo! This Tweety was a custom for the "Design the new site look" for Best Designs, but I've adapted it for usage for you fine people. Writing on the image says "I Tought I Taw a Pwetty Layout", a take on Tweety's phrase "I Tought I Taw a Puddy Tat". Hope you like it, because I did when I made it! ;-)

Voila a Christmas layout, just before Christmas! Was a former contest participant, which didn't win, but is still amazing. And very red and green. Hope you like it. It features my very own Christmas tree!

Oooh. Even if I say so myself, I love this layout. I found the image at Catherine Jamieson's Photography Page (Thanks Catherine!), and had a bit of inspiration, made lovely 3D Button link-headers, and added a few Japanese letters (symbols?) for an oriental look, and hey presto. I really like the link banner effect, plus, it grows to accommodate extra links/bios whatever. And it's yellow. Well, more Gold I guess...

Well, it had to be done eventually... I converted Raging Pistachio Designs to entirely CSS layout based. It's basically the same, I know, but with a re-organisation of links with new link headers. It looks perfect in Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla Firebird, but if you have any other browser, and it looks a bit poo, please email me with the problem (and preferably a screenshot) and I'll try and fix it. It would also be useful if you tell me what browser you're using as well, although if you're a Netscape user, and you have anything less than version 7, it might be worth upgrading.

For once, a template that I've done that wasn't part of a challenge! Hurrah! Another Exploding Dog layout. I love that guy's pictures, and this one is terrific. Quite colourful, with red, pale blue and white. It has link headers, and a place to add all your extra buttons/counters etc. Luverly Jubberly.

Here's another seasonal set available for the taking here on Raging Pistachio Designs. The inspiration this time was a challenge set for The Template Challenge.

There's one for each season: spring, summer, autumn and winter. All four designs are imageless, so there's no need to upload and host any images (Yay, I hear you crying), and there are essentially four different colours to choose from.

If you wanted, you could change the writing to say something else, but I've tried to fit in the colour to go with the seasons. Green for spring, yellow for summer, orange for autumn, and blue for winter.

My imageless section is gradually expanding, so hopefully if you can't find any webspace to host your images, there's something you like over here at Raging Pistachio Designs.