This article is outdated, but still applies to the old version of himerus.com located at http://himerus.com/old/.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...