Thank you to the folks who provided feedback regarding what you wanted to see in the site redesign. I dove in really thinking that I wanted to get back to the simple look of a two-column layout but ended up settling on the Thesis Theme from Pearsonified. I think that it gives the initial simple appearance i was going for while also providing some flexibility to layout widgets in two columns. Based on feedback, I also wanted to get away from the black background and use highly readable fonts. I think that the theme gives a great starting point on that front.
Please give the new comments fields a workout and let me know any feedback or suggestions that you might have. I’d love to hear it!
I removed a bunch of crufty content and uploaded some starter images for the blog. The images are bit “wintery” but they can be updated fairly simply now that things are up and running. If you have any great photos you think would go well, feel free to send them to me. I’d like to build up a deck of maybe 20 or 30 to cycle through randomly and keep things fresh.
Thanks to Ross for coming over and drinking wine while helping me explore and play with these new templates! Now if we can just figure out how to get the Faves widget to fit in with things and play nice (we spent an hour last night trying to figure out why the “unstyled” widget was overwriting our CSS attributes), we’ll be golden.
