Welcome to the redesigned blog
- The old design of the blog dated back to the original Movable Type deployment and was ported to Wordpress.
Welcome back and welcome to the new design. With a new year and new changes, it was time to update the look and feel of my personal site.
The original design dates back to when I first moved my site from static html to a blog many, many years ago. The first blogware I used was Movable Type, and I ported that design with a few updates when I migrated the site to Wordpress a few years ago.
The original design implemented transparent png backgrounds and css before many browsers supported them (booo Internet Exporer). While it was a fairly cutting edge design then, it has felt dated to me for some time now. I also felt that it was not easy to read. I had been trying in vain to get crestock’s freebie image plugin to work, and finally decided to try to do a clean wordpress install to get it up and running. With that successful, I imported the old blog’s export file and cut the domain over. At that point, I figured a new skin was in order.
This new rollout uses the 3COL-RDMBAN RR Theme by Eric Crooks, and I’m pretty happy with it after a few minor modifications. I was tempted to use thesis or a framework and roll my own again, but in the end, I wanted to get back to working and not grind over the redesign. I chose the theme based on layout and my love for the orange and grey palate. It felt like a good fit with the old circuit design and color scheme in the old color scheme. With some stock photo searching for a few new abstract circuit images to mix into the rotating banner and quick slicing, I was ready to go with only a light effort.
Anyway, hope it is easier to read – the whole point – and visually pleasing. Thanks for any input.