I’ve spent every spare moment over the last two weeks making this design, which I’ve dubbed “blocks.”

As for some tech­ni­cal things, I made this design using a grid, 980 to be pre­cise. the design itself is actu­ally, 940 pixels wide, though that’s because my fire­works file has a 20 pixel gutter on the sides, which you can’t really notice in this design.

I only use one font through­out the entire site (Arial). This is usu­ally a bit of a no-​no but I went with it, and made sure that all my head­ings were dif­fer­en­ti­ated from the con­tent. I also made sure my line-​spacing was tall enough so that the body text didn’t become hard to read.

I’ve moved most of my former pages into lists found in the footer. I decided that this web­site was about what I write, and so having those extra pages wasn’t worth it, nor are they main focus of this site.

The left bar is widget-​driven, with the excep­tion of the cal­en­dar which is always there.

The top four panels will change the site’s colours using jQuery.

Now for things that I know are messed up:

1. PNGIm­ages seem to be resiz­ing weird in ie6. Seems to have some­thing to do with the pngFix jQuery library I’m using. I will be look­ing into this.
2. The Left nav can over-​lap the footer on ie6. I’m not fixing this because I’m sick of ie6, and I had to make enough con­ces­sions in my design just to make it work. As far as I’m con­cerned it’s a hit I’m will­ing to take. Upgrade people.
3. The resume and port­fo­lio links go to a coming soon page (my next projects)
4. Old posts have some con­tent repeated. This is due to my taking advan­tage of the Excerpt in this design more than the old one. I’ve got to go back through the old posts and update them. Not look­ing for­ward to it.
5. Some posts con­tain images that mess the layout up. Once again I’ve got to go through those posts and update the sizes. As I’m using a smaller con­tent column, I’ve got to update all those posts. Also not look­ing for­ward to that.
6. I’ve still got to test it, but I think there could be a bug with the OpenID plugin with this layout. (com­ment section)
7. When logged in ie7 (only) the Submit button for com­ments is behind the text box.

And with this out of the way, we’ll see how my sched­ule adjusts.