new look for Spring

Time for a new look. I re-skinned the WordPress stuff with a little help from wpthemes.info.

I ran across Sandvox today and ran the top-level page, uninteresting as it is, through it.

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Sandvox looks interesting, from what little I used it. It seems to do a pretty nice job at abstracting away all the icky html stuff. It also introduces a modular assembly idea with Pagelets, little stubs that be added or removed from the page as needed. Peeve: you can add a Flickr badge, but not yours. There’s one coded in and you have to remove/replace it with your own badge if you have one.

And unregistered users get a big yellow banner across the bottom of their one page announcing their cheapskate status šŸ˜‰

But for all those petty niggles, it looks good, works well, worth a look.

And I got a reply/acknowledgment of my Flickr badge kvetch in less than an hour. Encouraging.

Now playing: Porrohman by Big Country from the album “The Crossing”

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