I’ve been wanting to redesign my blog for a while. Back on the old blog, I still have the same theme as I made a year and a half ago, which for me is pretty impressive. I tend to redesign at the drop of a hat, work on it for a while, then forget about it. Eventually I’ll spend a day on a completely different design and that’s what I use.

When I started using Tumblr for blogging, I wanted to make it look slick. But I didn’t have the time, so I went with the cleanest pre-made theme I could find. It worked well, and I was just going to tweak it. But then I decided I wanted to see what the buzz was about HTML5. So I rewrote that theme with the appropriate <article>, et al. tags and my own, cleaner CSS. But it didn’t feel right. So I started over with minimal markup with no style, and just played with it. I still drew inspiration from that theme, but that’s ok.

Anyway, it’s a work in progress. I won’t post about it again, but you may notice things change or break as I tweak it (or add features, like pagination or conversation posts). If you love clean, structured CSS with variables, check out Sass.

Also, if you don’t have Futura and you just see Helvetica (or even Arial), I’m sorry. It looks way better for me.