A Little Cosmetic Surgery

Oh look, LoweyBlog has gone all different! Thursday night I was having trouble sleeping, and so started poking around with some images. Then I found myself writing a basic XHTML page. Then, before I knew what I was doing I'd delved deep into a stylesheet for the page, made a logo, and got a basic design... When I woke up Friday morning I began tweaking and ironing out the few minor bugs (all Internet Explorer related, what a surprise).

Well I'd done that much, I now had a new layout ready to go in the blog - except that's where the problem lay. The blog script has always been a bit of a hack. In fact it's one gigantic hack. So all the HTML for the blog was, that's right, in the script. I had to write a load of code to seperate the page structure from the code and make it sane. Then, with the change in design, I needed to make a few changes to the underlying blog. I've spent most of this evening ironing out the bugs (hopefully I got them all) and then very quietly uploading all the images, stylesheets, templates etc etc. The transfer was very simple, which makes a pleasant change.

Anyway I hope you all like the new layout. One of my many plans is to, at some point, make some other layouts and allow you to choose which one you want to use from the menu. Why? Because I can. Oh, and because it'd be good for showing off my 1337 design skillz0rz.