Last year, this blog felt very much like a placeholder.  It was a placeholder, actually…  My plan had been to run WordPress as a temporary solution, build my own website framework, and bulldoze this place when I was done.  My framework, Escher, is now built and in a pretty good spot–it’s really going to make website development a much easier task for me.  But I must be honest: it’s no WordPress.  WP does blogging very well, so why switch?

Having had that epiphany, I decided it was time to pretty the blog up.  This theme is a “blueprint” variant on the theme I’ll soon be using for my portfolio website.  Not quite as pretty, but still fun.

I’m going to tweak the focus of this blog, too.  While still about technology, design and the web, I’ll try to keep things a lot less technical.  Every now and then, someone will ask me a question at work and I’d love to write a blog entry to point them to…  That’s the type of content I will be working towards.

The layout and positioning are not quite to my tastes, but the subdued, neutral matte color scheme is right up my alley at the moment.  I’ve tweaked a few elements–sidebar width, search bar, header height, etc.–to be a bit more compact.

I had wanted to design my own theme, but I decided to swallow my pride and just pick one, because I don’t want this blog to feel like work, and I’ll never write here if I feel like it’s unfinished.  So this will do for now.  Perhaps I’ll build my own theme when & if I convert this blog from WordPress over to Escher.