To stop all the odd looks and jaw drops from a certain demographic group who regularly frequents this site, I didn't steal the transitional Mozilla design, but I merely remade that from a tabled layout into a CSS layout. That semantic layout is on mozdev.org. (For those who have no clue as to what tabled/CSS layouts are, then imagine translating from one language to another.) Yes, yes, I had the perfect plan with a perfect name (Mozphile) that no one would ever suspect. My intentions were quite jocular: get the perfectly remade layout onto the frontpage of Mozilla.org. Then, at the right moment I would smack you in the face by proclaiming the identity of Mozphile. However, the crappy transitional site was never fixed and an altogether new design was made. However, I did have an article on the frontpage of Pravda Mozillazine, the same place that months ago shut me out. Because I worked so diligently to make the CSS design from basically scratch, I decided that I was going to put the layout to good use: me.
I recently wrote an essay criticizing Mozilla's lack of marketing, hitting hard especially on the website. Many might scream hypocrisy that I would associate myself with a website that is as horrible for Mozilla as the current one. However, marketability was not the point. The intention of my redesign at mozdev was simply to show that an all CSS replica could be made. My chances of having it accepted and put on Mozilla.org, in my mind, were raised as objections to "my" design (as opposed to truly my layout) would directly criticize some top Mozilla nerds. The layout, however bad for Mozilla, fits quite well as the portal to the Andkon Empire.
With that said, allow me to gloat over a few points to expose how the re-redesign was made:
I basically started out with Mozilla logo. First, I converted all the letters from "mozilla.org" to spell out "andkon.com." Apart from the "k" (take the "z," chop the top off, add and "l") this was relatively easy. After cutting out the Moz dino, I remade the orange-brown gradient, which was already crappy when magnified. For the "thing" in the gradient, I put my face. Then, I realized I already had too many of those, so I decided to make other people be in the logo. I got a really goofy picture of Gore, then I diversified with Alexander the Great, Michelangelo's David, Gandhi, and finally Budapest's Chain Bridge. A PHP script makes sure as to choose a random logo (out of the six possibilities) each time the page is loaded. I'm by no means good at any type of fine arts or even Photoshop, but the logo (and its rotation) is just cool.
Essentially, rest of the code was Andkonified by converting class and id values to fit the contents of the page (downloadBox was changed to arcadebox, etc.). The ever-sophisticated PHP includes were added for the blog headlines, the blog entry. The same rotation script as seen for the logo is used for the self-portraits on the bottom left. Apart from the text, the mozdev creation and the new andkon frontpage are stringly similiar. Padding, font sizes, a few colors are changed, but most of the original was perserved, even the (improved) donation link which indeed does work. If you don't believe me, try it out.
