When this post finally goes live, it'll accompany a new theme and the latest revision of the BlogEngine.net.

I'm gonna call this theme "Dark Garden". With this, I'm retiring my old "Defiance" theme. I have resued the icon packs that I used for the Defiance theme. Therefore, most of the credits remain with the authors mentioned on that page. New additions are:

• The gorgeous flower brushes are from Elbert de Lioncour at DA
• The cool Web2.0 layer styles are from deziner folio.
  
• And I might update the smilies to their latest version.

In honour of the artists (wish everybody had stamps like this):

Update:

This site could have saved me couple of minutes off my design time.. Oh well 

After weeks of photoshoping, CSharping and SQLiting, this blog is finally ready for prime time! Yeah!!!

There's a bit of frustrating history behind this design. It was initially dreamt up for my CodeOfDefiance.com site. After painstakingly constructing a Blogger template from this design, I had the bright idea of dropping Blogger and the domain and move on to BlogEngine.NET and Codoxide.com. Now, I'm thinking that the new domain should get a new design.

Anyway, in the mean time list of all important credits:

• The tank on the top right corner: Chris Peura (featured at sxc.hu)
• The clouds: JavierZhX featured at DeviantArt
• The cityscape: injectioninfection featured at DeviantArt
• The smilies: Fixedys featured at DeviantArt
• The main toolbar (top left) was based on the tutorial on ITookia.com
• The rounded corners on post titles: Snazzy Borders from CSSplay
• Some other sources for PNGs featured around the site: YellowIcon and ZeusBox

Also, many thanks to my friends who provided feedback during the design process.