mkjones

Its been 2008 for a few days now so I thought I would spend a while re-styleing my site.

I started by deleting the 100s of useless categories I had littering the site. After a mass culling I ended up with:

# Design
# Games
# Interest
# Music
# Science
# Software
# Sport
# Technology
# TV

Which should cover pretty much ALL of my blog posts over the next year. Needless to say the culling made one hell of a mess of my old content but it had to be done.

Eventually I hope to further refine these categories and doing so find a better voice for this blog. This will of course limit in some way what I eventually decide to write about.

Simpler

The new layout and design of the site is small, simple and easy to use. It only took me around an hour to code the XHTML and CSS and re-work the header image.

There are no fancy gradients, a sheer lack of colour, no tricks and no fancy unwanted code. Overall the new design files fall in at 25k compared to the 100k I had for the old site.

Happy New Year!