16th August 2007
The Catmafia goes dark!
I prefer this layout much more myself, though. I drew those cats up there a while ago, and I thought I’d scan them in and use them for a layout
And after I’d convinced myself that what I had was good enough - I changed my mind and decided I would do something that I’ve never done before.
I made something dark.
Hence, the name of this theme is “dark”. I couldn’t think of anything better, honest. All my creativity had been sucked out of my brain in making the damn thing.
I got my inspiration from a colour palette I saw over at Colourlovers. I don’t have the link to the exact palette - but the colours were something like the pink, green and blue used at FamFamFam.
Well, I’m pretty pleased with it - although I think I need to tone down the colours a bit. It looks OK on my mac, but somehow everything is more saturated on my PC, and the green looks absolutely horrendous. Please give me any suggestions you have 
I’m also having trouble picking out a font that I like - since my mac’s resolution is a bit larger than my PC’s - anything that looks decent on my mac looks far to large on my PC. Maybe I’m just not used to my PC any more, hence I look at the font and think “God, that’s large, ugly and obnoxious.” So, yes. Suggestions please.
I was staring at the layout in Photoshop, and then I suddenly thought, “THE CAT MAFIA!? That is such a good name. I can’t believe I thought of that.” Yes, for me it often takes a while for the penny to drop. And sometimes, the penny floats back up again and then a while later, gravity will pull the penny back down. I often sit down in deep thought, and all of a sudden I’ll realise something: like “OH MY GOD MY NAME IS TISH! That suits me so well. Tish. Tishy Tish Tish. Tishhh.” Other people think I’m a bit mental, but my brain is so full of useless things that there is no room in it for basic facts, such as my name, in my… er… RAM. So occasionally something appears out of nowhere from my mental hard-drive and smacks me in the face.
Interesting analogy.
Back to what I was going to talk about until I got distracted by my own name - I wanted to ask you all: how did you come up with the name for your site? (if you have one, that is).
Personally, I was talking with a friend and we were making up random words by sticking other words together. Just for fun. We came up with several very idiotic things like “BottleMouse” and “NuclearChicken” but I, being cat obsessed, had to make up something to do with cats. So I shouted “CATMAFIA!” and started running around meowing with an invisible gun in my hand. And that is why my site is called The Catmafia.
Comments
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Alex
On August 16, 2007 at 1:06 am.The new layout looks really nice.
You should consider putting up templates for people who are too lazy to make their own layouts like me. I promise I’ll make one some day… just when I’m less lazy.This layout looks pretty nice on my MacBook, but that’s not helpful since you own a MacBook as well. The problem with glossy screens is that it enhances the colours too much, so that it doesn’t look the same on other screens.
The Cat Mafia’s a cool name. In fact, I can see a group of cats outside my window, so maybe they’re part of your cat mafia (if you have one).
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Mallory
On August 16, 2007 at 1:26 pm.The colors of the layout look good to me. The grey mitigates the neon-ness of the green, blue and pink, so it’s not hard to read. I’m on a PC laptop.
The way I came up with my website name: my first and middle name. It’s easy for elderly relatives to remember and easy to say over the phone to distant relatives.
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Amanda
On August 16, 2007 at 1:27 pm.Colorlovers is a great site - if only it were spelt “colour” instead :(. But I really like the colours you’ve used, moreover, the “CatMafia” name! I wish I could get spouts of inspiration like that just staring at photoshop.
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Roni
On August 16, 2007 at 2:39 pm.Oooh, I love the layout. Looks fine on my PC.
My site name, hmm. Amy (monsterheart from DMB) came up with mine. Since I needed a LiveJournal username, and it later became a domain. Woo.
I love CatMafia.
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Belinda
On August 17, 2007 at 5:10 am.This is so pretty. I love the colors. Eeee.
My domain name (dispiacere.org) is very lame. I plugged in random names into a translator and came up with it. Hee, I want to get a new one.The Cat Mafia is such a cool name, though. Cats=awesome.
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