Dude, this is HIDEOUS!

No, this is not the promised redesign, I swear.

Blogger templates are pretty tough things to work with. Trying to wrap your brain around the various conditional tags and optional areas makes for quite a headache. Not to mention the limitations; trying to create an archive in reverse chronological order is a pain in the ass.

So I've decided to build it slowly instead of facing the overwhelming task of building it over completely without a testing environment (i.e., I can't have a separate Blogger installation on my computer to test new features). Those of you who visit this site frequently will be able to watch it grow.

I'm currently reading a great book about web standards, which is how anyone who designs websites should be designing their sites. (Table tags for layout are so 2001.) So I'll be gradually adding style sheet declarations over the next couple of weeks. This blog will become prettier and prettier as the days go by. And if you're truly nerdy, you can view source and watch the changes that occur as I add new CSS code.

In the meantime, at least this is more legible than that lime green monstrosity everyone was complaining about. Thank you for your patience.