Contemplation

I should be working on more important things (like my career, for example), but I decided to spend yet more time faffing about and play with some code, meanwhile at least.

I’m not sure if this trick has been documented elsewhere on the web (it probably has), but it was only extended from a “custom greetings” code I learned once (the ‘good morning/evening/night’ one, if you ever came across it). So, I thought I’ll display my header background in a different color (express ‘color overlay’ filter photoshopping) depending on the time of the day. Of course, you can decide to display a whole different theme altogether if you want, but I thought change the header coloring would be subtle and interesting in the same time.

Now, these headers will show depending on the time of the day (GMT+3).

In the morning (0500 - 1159)

In the afternoon (1200 - 1759)

In the evening/night (1800 - 2359)

After midnight ( 0000 - 0459)

Well, there’s nothing to it, all you have to do is write an php function of an ‘if’ statement echoing a different css ‘id’ name (which you will have to write as well) and respectively match both. I’m not going to attempt writing a full tutorial yet (because 1. its not too complicated, and 2. because I haven’t got a proper code highlighting plug-in), but I might do so

So, hopefully you will end up visiting these pages at different times of the day to see the changes. If you do, let me know what you think of it.