I've had this theme around for quite a while and used a simpler version of it at my family site. But a couple of days ago I decided to finish up the ragged edges, update it to 1.9.2, and enhance it here and there.

In some areas it's pretty similar. I modeled the top bar and horizontal menu graphics pretty closely on the MTV.com originals, grabbing the color for my blends from a screenshot of that site, etc. And I wanted to make the mouseovers look and work as close to the originals as possible. I'm pretty happy with the way that turned out, with CSS and animated gif background images pretending to be Flash . Actually this is only working as planned in IE. For some reason Opera and Flock (based on Firefox) don't display the link background graphics consistently.

There's still work to do in the pages' center column and so on. Actually I'm not trying to duplicate that site as closely as I can (which actually would be pretty hard since the selectors here are different), but I do want a good, uniform style throughout the theme.

The menu is working best in IE right now. I'm having trouble getting the menu horbar items to stay where they belong, I guess because of differences in the way padding is handled. But I'll keep working on it.

This is the first time I've used CSS for alternative page backgrounds. (After choosing the emteekee theme, compare tiki-galleries.php and tiki-list_blogs.php for example.) Also, a CSS "display: none" is used on the left column td on the blog pages, and alternate colors are used in the modules in some sections.