posted 2007/02/09 at 01:06
Ah, this seems like old times. Back in the day, it didn't seem so uncommon for me to just not notice the passing of time as I worked on a Website, somehow managing to squeeze in my meals without remembering actually eating them, all manner of music and television on in the background. This isn't a life I'd ever want to return to, but for my own Website, and for the sake of nostalgia, surrendering a day to just working on the redesign of the .org was worth it.
I think I've finally got the design down, but I've run out of steam for tonight. I'll probably want to run the design by a couple of my more visually-oriented friends before I commit to changing everything over, but I don't foresee doing any major changes. I've managed to keep my personal colour scheme in the new design, although I will finally, at long last, be changing over to black text on a white background. (What can I say, even though I know the black background makes text harder to read, I guess the 1% of me that identifies as goth insisted on it.) With any luck I should be able to get the new design rolled out by the end of the week.
One snag I've run into is that apparently I can only use the new Blogger layout features if I switch back to Blogspot.com hosting, which isn't going to happen since I'd lose the ability to have special pages for all the other sections of the .org. Worse yet, in the change over to the new Blogger system, apparently the ability to edit the template for the archive index has been completely lost. Old posts are still being archived, but the index itself no longer updates, so now I'll have to go in and manually update that. This isn't going to take as long as it sounds it will, but at the same time I'm still not happy with having to do it in the first place.
I will find a way to keep a copy of this current design accessible just for historical reasons. Heck, I never did update some of the old .journal entries over from the original "twisted mystic" design I used starting with the .org's launch. (I need a cool nickname for this current design ... suggestions?)
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