I’ve had the builders in, and redesigned this blog. The main aim has been to make a bit more room. The default Wordpress theme, despite cosmetic adjustments, is a little mean and narrow – while the wide themes all have strange quirks in their efforts to look slick.
Blueprint made it easy to bash a gridded layout together, leaving me to spend time on the details. I borrowed Mark Boulton’s new fondness for Georgia, as the Helvetica/Verdana combination is a little austere for my ramblings. It’s strange how tastes change – a few years ago, I’d have thought serif fonts were caused by a missing stylesheet. Now I feel it makes things look nice and textbook-like.
The little robot is back, waving about at the top right. I made him years ago, and he’s done a solid job in a time when digital presence is scattered round multiple sites. He suffers from my occasional attacks of minimalism, but doesn’t do any harm. Not yet anyway. Let me know if he attacks.