The shame: I realized the other day that the “design” that was current on this site until today had been there for a really long time. Since I have been working on other things and just posting here and there, I had also neglected the fact that there were some massive breakages that just looked really bad, as if something had been attempted and had failed.
The solution: I decided it was finally time to resurface the site, but do so quickly so as to actually get things working again. So, the current state you see here is the result. Not finished, but at least not entirely broken. I did a little research, and decided that I would try out the Sandbox theme. I appreciated what they are trying to do, and I also decided that I should go ahead and start basically from scratch with a foundation that has some nice semantic markup to build on.
The project: What you see here in progress is actually a new theme that I am building on top of Sandbox, tentatively called Plastic Laminate, utilizing pretty much just new CSS on top of the existing Sandbox for now, and then I may actually do some reskinning or plugin building as well, to cover any areas missing content I want. That being said, if things look a bit wonky or like a blog with little design effort applied at the moment, that’s because its still in transition…
