intertwingly

Tim Bray: real deep design skill is rare, but there are a few principles of design and color that, if you follow them, will keep you mostly out of trouble and produce something that may not seduce the viewer’s eye but on the other hand won’t revolt it

Once Firefox 3.1 comes out with SVG mask/clip-path/filter effects in HTML, I plan to experiment with texture.  It seems to me that being able to link to a page that contains one’s effects would be a handy thing to have.  Define your effects and even on one page, reference those effects in your css, and link to both pages and your markup can be clean.

Meanwhile, I’ve tweaked my current textureless design for Halloween.