I finished working on my new theme tonight, so you should be seeing the new look of my blog. I’m still fine tuning some of what you are seeing, so things may seem a little dusty till we get all the kinks worked out.
Drop me a comment and let me know what you think of the new design or if something isn’t working as expected.
I spent most of last night and today creating a new release for my hobby site, Weathernerd.com. I don’t work on a particular schedule with this stuff, but when I get sick of a design or think of new things I want to do, I’ll take a couple days and crank something out. The last design I made was in the Fall, and didn’t have much time to do anything with it the way it was. Luckily it is pretty self-maintaining with how I built the data feeds, so the care and feeding really was minimal.
I wanted to simplify this design. I used the .NET Framework 3.5, although I didn’t really use any functionality specific to 3.5. I went back to less graphics, used more CSS, and just tried to make the data readily available and easy to use.
The other thing I wanted to do was integrate the blog into the site to provide the same look and feel, as well navigation. That didn’t go as well as I had planned, but the end result nonetheless satisfies what I was looking for.