the tindog coffeehouse

If you’ve been to this blog before, you may have noticed a little redecoratin’ going on ’round here. Yes, I redesigned the blog, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Hope you like it, too.

I actually rolled out the new design a couple of days ago (briefly) but yanked it when I realized the sidebar wasn’t showing up at all in Internet Explorer. (Stupid non-compliant browser!) Luckily I found the problem, although as is typical in web design, it created a few other minor issues which I’m hoping to work through (or learn to live with).

Being on Wordpress.com, as you may know, means being able to choose from only a limited number of templates. And although you can customize the CSS, the amount of customization varies widely from template to template, depending on how it was built. When I initially setup the blog last year, I picked a template I mostly liked and tweaked the CSS a little, and that was it. But I was never fully happy with it.

I like this design much better. It’s cleaner and the text is easier to read (kind of important in a blog, being able to read it). Hopefully, I can get the last little bugs ironed out without calling Steve Ballmer too many nasty names. (Maybe I’ll just throw some eggs at him.)

In the meantime, feel free to leave your feedback. And thanks for the visit.