I’ve updated the design of this blog — again.
If you’re reading this post via a syndication feed, then you’re missing out on my sUpEr l33t aRTiSTIC skillZ! The visual design is based on a design mocked up with Inkscape. It’s strikingly similar to a header I drew back when I used the K2 theme.
And yes, if you’re viewing this with IE6, you’re probably wondering why it looks like complete crap. But, then again, if you are using IE6, you’re probably not going to be remotely interested in what I have to say on this blog either. Go back to your daily routine.
The main goal of this redesign was not to liberally apply alpha-blended PNGs; nor to create the yes-I’m-annoying-you-on-purpose-Coolvetica header. It’s the Identi.ca and Delicious integration on the front page. (Yay!)
Another goal was to make the site a leetle more presentable. I’m a big fan of minimalism, and while I put lots of effort into my previous design, it used simple shades of grey, and, I have to admit, it was a bit drab. So, I’ve brightened it up with the Tango palette.
After the demise of Mugshot, my blogging, bookmarking, and microblogging were no longer being aggregated into a single stream. So I brought them right here, inline with my blog feed. I often see people’s Twitter or Delicious widgets on their blog sidebar, but never have I seen it displayed inline in the blog feed before; nor could I find a WordPress plugin to do the job for me.
Don’t ask how I implemented it, by the way. It’s not exactly elegant. (*cough* output buffering *cough*)
Two more things: If you’re using a browser that doesn’t contain the substring MSIE in its user-agent ID, you should be getting served by the application/xhtml+xml mime-type. Let me know if you hit any XML well-formedness errors. Also, comments have been made a little prettier, and I enabled two-level threading (which means you can reply to a comment, but no replies to replies).
So, what do you think? Pukeworthy? Let me know.
