New Design: Update

27 May

I threatened promised a redesign of this blog and thats whats coming. I’m not ready to launch just yet but I’m not far off. In fact I’m not far off the ‘90% finished ennui‘ stage.

I’m quite pleased with how its turning out so far and, most importantly its allowed me to learn and implement some new skills and revisit some old ones in a new way. A few things the new design will carry:

  • An actual colour scheme instead of brown sludge
  • At least one stretchy column (an idea I nearly ditched after I found out Andy Clarke had launched with it. Then I thought ‘what the hell – its a good system, who cares if its been done?’)
  • A vastly improved Archive system
  • Some Flash – not necessarily sIFR – that I think is functionally very good
  • No support for IE5.* as it only makes up 0.7% of my audience

I’ve toyed with Dean’s IE7 but must admit I’m having a few issues with it – its not running very well in combination with WordPress I think and I’m still mulling over sIFR which I’ve had limited success with in the past but these are side issues. Essentially things are progressing nicely.