Facelifted and fancy-free

I've just spent a weekend doing something I've been promising myself for over a year that I'd do — I've redesigned my personal webspace. The original design is almost nine years old (it was my first site, which should surprise no one) and its design had become downright embarrassing. It was usable enough, I think (those principles don't really change much), but it was waaaay out of style and I had gotten to the point of cringing whenever I looked at it (or even thought about how it looked, truth be told). I considered redoing the information structure, and eventually decided not to, concluding that it wasn't really so bad and that redoing it would have been too much work for too little gain. So I redesigned the main navigation, converted all the pages to XHTML, removed most of the use of tables for layout, and drastically increased my use of CSS — all good things. I may continue to play with it some, but at least now I can relax and stop cringing.

Unfortunately, this was a weekend when I'd rather have been outside. The weather was glorious, and in the spring there are almost no bugs. But I've been down with something and had to stay inside anyhow. So at least I felt well enough to spend two days glued to my Mac. (And at least it's a Mac. <grin>)