I figured it was about time this place got a bit of a tidy up.  Like most such chores, I’d been putting it off for months, but then I found myself with something particularly boring to do at work, so learning a little CSS and mucking about with hexadecimals suddenly took on much greater appeal.

I had two primary aims:

1) To make the navigation easier - everything in the sidebar used to run together horribly, and people couldn’t find such important parts of the site like the “contact me” button.  Of course, now people will use it, and they’ll want to engage in some sort of dialogue with me, and I’ll get sociophobic and wished I had removed the button altogether.

2) To free up more room for photos - before they were quite squashed into a 400 pixel space, now they can relax comfortably in the first class leg room afforded by this design’s, um, 500 pixels.

And in truth, I was becoming a bit fatigued by the little Hungarian houses and their tangle of ex-Communist cabling.

I’m still tinkering with it a little, and I know it isn’t perfect (for example, I’m damned if I can put that comments link at the bottom of each post on the front page), but feel free to let me know what you think - either in the comments, or by using the now (too) easy-to-find “contact me” gadget.