Fresh lick of paint

Monday, June 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM
I've had an off-the-peg Blogger template since the get-go two and a half years ago, and it was always something I wanted to change but - much like actually writing the damn thing - I never got round to it. So twelve months ago I mocked out the layout you see now in Photoshop with the intention of figuring out how to code it up for Blogger. It was a job that proceeded ridiculously slowly.

So a few weeks ago, realising that my design was approaching its first anniversary and was still sitting on the bench, I decided to find an existing Blogger template and hack at it 'til it looked as close as I could get it to my design. That work is now done. If you spot any fatal wonkiness please leave a comment in this post. If you're using a crap browser don't bother. I've made it good enough to work for most people. Given it has taken so long to even get me to this point, if it looks wrong in IE6 then frankly I don't think I can find it in me to even begin to care.

To spruce things up, and because the new wider whiter layout permits it, I am revisiting some old posts and adding a few graphics here and there. I have even deleted a few really pointless old posts and trimmed some bits of dead wood. If you landed here from a search engine (bing!) and what you were after is no longer available, it is likely that you have fallen victim to my stalinesque revisionism. (I have covered up a few murders too, simply by removing the URLs.)

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