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As I’m sure you can see, I’m in the midst of Yet Another Redesign. This one is rootarcana v6, or as I like to lovingly call it… um, rootarcana v6. I never really came up with a good name for this one. It’s got a lot of white in it. I dunno. Maybe I should have a naming contest. :p

As I mentioned at the last redesign, v5, the number ‘6′ is somewhat arbitrarily assigned. I know I’ve redesigned my site more than six times, but this is the sixth redesign since I started counting. And since I’m the only one who actually ~is~ counting, I think we’ll be alright.

The biggest change you’ll notice is (duh) the look. It’s whiter. There’s a lot less blue in it (though you’ll notice I couldn’t abandon blue entirely, oh, heavens no). I think I might be committing a design sin by combining red and orange. Other changes include:

• The line spacing is a little wider
• The text is (currently) a little bigger.
• The sidebar has a bit more space.
• The “links” navigational element has become “externals.”
• I added a flickr feed (photos I take as I wander the earth).

I’m not done with the redesign. Really, I probably shouldn’t have pushed to publish it today, but I figured the only way it was ever going to get done is if I made it public and then felt obligated to fix it up. :) There are a lot of changes yet to make, I know. For one, the monthly archives have not yet been updated. They are, as you will notice if you bother to check, still on rootarcana v4, meaning they never even made it to v5. Turns out I get a parsing error in Movabletype (in mt.pm, the big one) when I try to update my monthly archives. I must have gotten annoyed by it the last time and never bothered to try and fix it. My portfolio also has not been updated. Movabletype (we have a love-hate relationship) ATE my portfolio blog, meaning that while the static pages still exist, my CMS has no record of it existing. Meaning I’ll have to rebuild it by hand. These two changes will probably take a while to make.

Smaller changes will be made to the CSS pretty well constantly during the next week or so. For instance, the size and spacing of the text is not, in my opinion, not quite right. And the links in the sidebar are far too widely spaced. And I don’t yet know if three flickr photos will fit side-by-side as they should (I’ll test that shortly). Comments currently have no CSS formatting, and that is probably the next major thing that will be changed.

If you have any comments, questions, or complaints, let me know, and I’ll entertain them (or they’ll entertain me. Whichever). I’ll either make the change, explain why the change can’t be done, or explain why I made the change on purpose. :)