As you can see, I changed things around a bit! The old design was too dark, and I wanted the challenge of building a theme myself. It’s not perfect yet, but I’ll be cleaning up and adding new pages during the next month.

Despite the huge layout overhaul, the biggest change is going to be the content. I will still post new entries every Tuesday like I have been doing, but I will also be posting quotes from things I’ve been reading, as well as general “life” updates (including site maintenance, like this one). I have a pretty big collection of quotes I’ve saved from the past couple of years, so I’ll probably post these a couple of times a week.

To accommodate this, I made what I’m calling the “Stream Selector”, just under the navigation links. This is a dynamic filter that will show and hide posts from the above three categories. If you only want to read my original writing, you can hide everything else but that. If you don’t care about anything I have to say, but you think I have a good taste in the things I read, you can choose to only see quotes that I post. And if you just want to read a normal blog, you can do that too by selecting “Life”. I made the category selection consistent across pages, so if you use the “Older” or “Newer” links at the bottom, it will keep your filter intact.

Still to do: Add a good Archives page, as well as an About page and some other stuff. It’s also not very easy to browse old posts right now, but it will be. And some elements that aren’t on the main page need some styling (like the comments box).

Let me know what you think of the new design!