brainscat.com

Please let me know if you have any criticisms or praise for the new design. The look is by no means finalized, and I hope to make it as useful to readers as possible. Lay it on me.

“Keeping it simply styled” is my new mantra for this site. I’ve been working on this layout for quite some time, which is ironic, considering how little there is now. I’m confident this is a large improvement on this site as I am of the opinion that the default WordPress style is far too cluttered, and many of the “features” are not used 98% of the time, according to my request logs. To be more specific, I feel that the majority of the default features in the sidebar belong out of sight, stored in a drawer for the rare occasions people use them. Seafood forks, spatulas, and whisks are all very useful when I need them, but I don’t keep them mixed in with my every day silverware.

Small tweaks will probably happen in the coming weeks, and I’ll be adding a few pages that I’ve been meaning to put up for a while like advanced searching, an about page, contact form, linklog, and music log. I’ll even be changing this style a bit to comfortably fit on top of my PictorialisII photo gallery.

On another note, I’m indirectly thankful that Microsoft Windows’ fixed-width fonts look so butt ugly. You see, I originally hoped to use Courier New as the font for the site, because as a programmer I figured it really adds a flavor to the site that fits me. On OS X, Courier New and Monospace look pretty slick, and so I thought I would differentiate myself from other blogs with a fixed width font. Alas, there’s a reason websites don’t use fixed width fonts; they’re very hard to read. Such was almost the fate of this site, that is, until I checked it out in Internet Explorer… *shudder*.