(This post was first published on the U2MoL Golb at 5th of January, 2007.)
So, it was time again. For the fourth time ever, it was time for a redesign of the site; or the colour scheme at least. I was never really pleased with the green and white design I had previously, which replaced the black-and-gold Joshua Tree-inspired theme before that, and the first Achtung Babyesque white-on-black theme with blue and red as secondary colours. Before that I do not remember what I had, or if I had any at all? I think I went for the AB-black theme as the first one when I decided that I should add colour to the site in … 1996? How time flies…
This new redesign is inspired by How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, although I consider that to be their worst album. The Joshua Tree-inspired colour scheme felt a bit oldish, even if I liked it, but I wanted something more modern. I really like the sleeve of All That You Can’t Leave Behind, and maybe will the next redesign be inspired by that album?
A first with this redesign is that I have begun (again) to use a image as a header, the word ”U2MoL” is placed to the left in the margin (I really look forward towards CSS3′s ability to turn blocks, which will be an approved standard and implemented by the main browser around the time of the heat death of the universe!). I used images for headers on my first version of my website in 1994/1995 but threw them out a few years later when I did a major redesign of the site and threw our the Running U2 Archive (see the history for details). I wouldn’t call this ”back to basics”, for two reasons. It is not basic to use images as headings (the <h1> and friends are more them capable of holding that kind of information) and it would be that kind of dry blog-humour I promised above that I would spare you. (Pathetic, isn’t it, how it creeps in?) Oooh, well.
I hope you like the new look, if I don’t I will replace it with a new one…