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Extreme Makeover – Blog Edition

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

If you aren't reading this from an RSS feed (and really, you should stop by the site and say hello), you'll notice I gave the blog a bit of a makeover.  I wanted to accomplish a two things by moving to a new theme:

1) I wanted something a bit more "content-focused." Although my last theme served me well, I starting feeling like it was a bit cluttered.  I went with a simpler, plainer theme just to bring the content front-and-center.

2) I wanted to have a theme where it didn't matter if everyone else uses the same one. Creating a unique theme from scratch or from a base theme is not very high on my list of priorities at the moment, so I still need to use an off-the-shelf theme.  I've seen my previous theme used at several sites, but it often used a different color scheme or had different subject matter.  When I stumbled on to another game developer who used the same theme (along with the same color!), I decided I eventually needed to change the theme.  With a simpler theme like this one, it's less obvious that there are many blogs out there using the same theme.

So there you have it.  I hope it makes the site easier to read.

One other note:  I have temporarily taken down the link to my projects.  I'm in the middle of revising that section.  I'd like to talk a bit more about the ones I've posted as well introduce some new ones since the last time I updated that part of the site.