If you haven’t noticed the new blog design, you’re either a first time visitor (welcome…), or you’re blind. Yesterday I looked at my blog and all of the sudden the design felt so old and and boring and dusty to me. So I went for something entirely visually different. Here it is! The great thing about WordPress is that it is so easy to make drastic design changes with only a bit of CSS design modifications.
The obvious main new element of the design is the huge colorful background photo. I plan on changing this photo on a regular basis, so my entire blog will “look” similar to the season or whatever I’m up to lately. The opaque black background tints may not work properly in IE6 browsers (they may be solid grey instead), but if you’re still using IE6 you probably don’t deserve to browse the internet anyways. Seriously, though, if you are one of the 7% of people out there still using the horrible IE6 browser you really should upgrade – preferably to something other than Internet Explorer, like Firefox, Safari, or Chrome for instance. But I digress…
In addition to the design facelift, I also souped-up my WordPress theme with some useful and powerful new features and plugins, including:
