I've been only moderately playing with this site in spare time since my quick implementation of the Himpressive theme.

I think that for the "theme" to be completely successful, it will first have to lose the static height it is set to now. It will require expanding the two columns to match height, and take into account column resizing when certain events happen like ajax loading of views, etc. This will remove the scrolling sections in the center sections as they are just too hard to appropriately adjust for. I had been able to properly modify column width by 20px to acommodate for scroll bars if they were present, but making them attractive using jScrollpane was impossible, as it never seems to work in my installations w/Drupal. The overall effect is tacky anyway, as inner page scrolling should only be used in rare cases in my opinion.

This article is outdated, but still applies to the old version of himerus.com located at http://himerus.com/old/. Some of the thoughts here carry over to the new design, as it carries over a large amount of alpha-layer transparency.

When I first began this project to create my blog, I didn't have a real direction to know if there was any particular feature/design challenges that I was hoping to learn, or implement. It became clear after just a couple of hours in Photoshop that I had a layout that could potentially get some nice reviews... but the longer I played with the layout, the more transparent things became...