Redesign

I've grown tired of the old design of this blog, so I spent a few minutes this afternoon rearranging some things.

The *old* blog seemed really cluttered, and there were so many plugins necessary to keep it running that it was very clunky and sluggish when loading. I wanted to keep the same color scheme, but I wanted it to be much more clean and "zippy." I also wanted the content to be the focus, and though I really liked the preaching puritan image in the old design, it had to go. Every single blog in the world has a header image, the blog title, and then the content. In the new design the content comes first, while most of the other stuff is still around. On the front page, it all sits below the content in three columns (one wide, two skinny). This allows for presenting all of that information in one place without having it strewn over three vertical feet of sidebar real estate. On single post pages, that space is devoted to comments. On archive and search pages, some of the front page items make it into the sidebar, but most are left out so that the posts are featured most prominently.

What do you think? Any suggestions? Any bugs you've found?

The nice thing about WordPress is that I can switch back to the old theme with a couple of mouse clicks. So, if you hate it… let me know and I'll bring back the Nary an Original Thought that you've come to know and love.

By the way, if you're getting a "Press OK to continue loading the content of this page" alert, it's because you're using Internet Explorer 6.0. Upgrade to IE7, or read this article for more details about why you get that annoying little alert. An even better idea would be to use Firefox instead!