New look, same great taste

I actually followed up on my plan to do some blog renovation. On Friday night I put aside my old templates, and brought in the default Movable Type 3.2 templates, along with one of the styles from the MT library. The one I’ve chosen for now is named “Powell Street.” (In homage to San Francisco? Ah, I just realized: I remember that the walls of the Powell Street BART station are covered in white hexagonal tiles, mimicked by the background on these pages. A further “duh” moment: I just now viewed the complete image used in the banner, and it’s of a BART train going by in a blur.)

So yeah, things do look a little different, if you’re reading this on my site and not in a news reader, of course. I also switched to publishing individual entry (instead of daily) archives. Hopefully that will make for more targeted search results and linking. I used to rely on anchor-tagged entries within daily archives, and since there’s no way to redirect those anchors to the new individual pages — a .htaccess file ignores pound-signs as comments — I’ll just leave the old dailies up so as not to break any incoming links.

[Addendum (Sept. 30): If my site looks all wonky, your browser is probably loading an old version of the stylesheet, in which case you may try to reload/refresh the page, or force your browser to completely bypass the cache, by holding down Shift (or Ctrl) and clicking on the reload/refresh button.]