From a content standpoint, things have been dormant here for most of the last two years. But behind the scenes, there have been occasional bursts of activity. Earlier this year, I started porting everything from the blogging platform Movable Type to a much more robust content management system called ExpressionEngine. I also started work on a much-needed visual overhaul, because my longstanding design had calcified a bit.
The design you see here isn’t a radical change from the earlier one, but I think it’s a big improvement. ExpressionEngine made it much easier to add little bits of functionality here and there, like autosized thumbnail images for sidebars, search results, and tag results. I also learned a lot of subtle presentational tricks from Dan Cederholm’s excellent new book, CSS3 for Web Designers.
To create the textured background image for the main content area, I cropped a square from this classic album cover and colorized it. Man, the typography is so gorgeous:
I’ve never been a prolific blogger. But I have a backlog of various ideas, and I’ll definitely be posting some new stuff in the coming weeks and months. To ensure that you don’t miss my occasional bursts of output, you should follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my RSS feed.
More soon…
