Meet the New Boss

I have just relaunched deliberatepixel.com with a different format. Care for a quick tour?

The biggest change is the fact that only one blog post at a time is displayed on the front page. This means I'm definitely going to be putting more effort into blog entries with more length, depth, and original content. I've fallen into the habit lately of simply linking to other sites, and it's time to move away from that. But since I do still like some of those one-liners, I'll be compiling all of them into a large weekly post every Friday. I also intend to put more effort into producing at least one, if not more, post/s per day.

I have also excised a lot of dead weight from the content pages. The main content page now is the current page, where I keep the lists of books, music, film, and video games I'm currently consuming, as well as past and future concerts and film festivals. I have always had some of this information in my blog sidebar, but instead of the information just disappearing when I was done, I'm now archiving it in respective lists. Right now I'm coding it all in HTML, since there isn't a ton of info, but eventually I may move it all into a more powerful (and searchable) database format.

To take a page from Google, I'm going to officially label this site version "Beta." I have new features I'll be implementing over the next few weeks, including stylesheet swtichers to adjust text size and layout colors. I will probably also be making slight layout adjustments, since this layout format and color scheme is a new one for me. I've never done a light-on-dark layout before and I'm overly concerned about readibility (hence the prospect of style-switchers). Leave any comments, well, in the comments, and feel free to make suggestions. Comments are open to anyone (i.e. you do not have to have a Blogger account to leave one); however, I have turned on both word verification and moderation.

Oh, and if you've noticed the design of my MySpace page changing with alarming frequency - I've been matching it up to the various site designs I've been developing. But once I get this one locked in, it's staying for good. Until I change my mind.

UPDATE: I went through a couple of different adjustment and color schemes, but nothing was working for me - so I've stripped it down to black and white, got rid the the light-on-dark layout, and came up with this. I'm still building pages - if you come across a missing link, stay tuned, it will be there soon.

IE alert - for some reason Internet Explorer is displaying my Last.fm and Flickr boxes incorrectly. I'm not sure exactly what is causing the problem, but since it doesn't interfere with readibility, fixing it is not my top priority. A really good way to fix it is to view the site in Firefox.

[Photo credit: lemort @ morguefile.com.]