Quick Update

I am going to be re-doing this site along side a new site launch. Currently it is a mixture of static pages (the non-blog) stuff and the blog itself. Firstly, I am going to break the blog in half stripping out the tech stuff from the personal stuff. The tech stuff will reside on the new site and this site will become more personal and hopefully more interesting and readable to the people who know me.

Currently this site has a few experimental features strewn about haphazardly. The green gradient behind this text and the green highlight behind the links to the right are both background images which are very widely used on the web currently. However these are thrown together quickly and don’t look very good. The stark edges of the gradient are really harsh next to the next and the button border is not even as its wider in the corners. In addition the text of the right links looks very bad in both highlighted and normal state.

The revamp and the new site will both use wordpress and hopefully will include a much less default wordpress look. I’ve been greatly inspired by the creativeness of Bryan Veloso over at Avalonstar and many other bloggers of the 9 Rules network. However, be warned I am no designer so don’t expect too much from the non-technical side of the projects.