Or, why I still haven’t changed the look of this site yet.

I had a new design ready to go. It used a funky photo I took and some funky colours as well as a more ele­gant and sub­tle design. It used the Aura skin in place of gen­uine design tal­ent, and I really did like it. Except… it was fixed width.

Now I don’t want to start up the war about whether fixed width is good or bad. I have noth­ing against fixed width designs, except… I dunno, I wouldn’t want to have one myself, you know? I know they look good, are easy to imple­ment, and every blog on the planet has one, it seems… but it just seems like tak­ing the easy way out. Philo­soph­i­cally speak­ing, I would pre­fer to have a design which adapts to the user’s screen, tak­ing into account things like read­abil­ity and line length, because that’s what the inter­net is all about. One of these days I might have time to do it.

So there you have it. If I had an unlim­ited amount of time to devote to this site, it would be a hell of a lot pret­tier. The under­neath isn’t all that pretty, either… the markup is a bit stinky and a bit clunky. It was a very early effort. But given the laws of physics and space-time, I think it might be stay­ing the way it is for a bit longer yet.