Reloaded: www.patriotroad.com
May 22, 2008• (1) Comments
If you’ve just wandered in, today, May 23 is the re-launch of Redsky@night, my personal blog and community bully-pulpit. This long-overdue makeover gives the site a new commercial-grade undercarriage, new layouts, new graphic treatment, and—as time permits—it will reflect my new commitment to publish regular content here. As my fulcrum in publishing, RSN won’t, perhaps, move the world, but it has been a useful place to try out new ideas and say things my kids don’t yet understand.
Why the makeover? The year-old previous edition was looking cold and homely and I lacked enthusiam for building Yet Another WordPress Blog. Sure, I’d installed a jazzy new template a couple of Januaries back. But the layout wasn’t my work and I’d never really liked the colors.
And frankly I’d been itching to rebuild the site atop ExpressionEngine and take advantage of a few more of the CMS’s blog-like features that don’t normally find homes in my commercial projects. So, when time presented itself during one of the kids’ school vacations, I knocked this layout together. It’s a fixed-width layout, a little wider than my recent work, but pleasingly proportional.