SansPoint

I’ve fancied myself a web site designer, as well as a writer, but the stress of academia, and a certain laziness has kept me using a pre-fabricated template for this website until just now. Rather than continue to use something that doesn’t fully suit the physical needs, and certainly not the aesthetics of this website, I unveil the newly redesigned SansPoint.

A few pieces of design information: The color scheme for the site was generated using the cover art to Brian Eno’s album Another Green World, with a few small tweaks. The logo uses the Clarendon font, and if you have it installed, you’ll also get a number of headings in Clarendon as well.^[1] Also, and this is some serious web-geekery, the entire site, save for some images, is sized with ems, and it should resize dynamically if you increase or decrease your font size.

There are some caveats. In old posts, the images may not be positioned properly, and this must be fixed by hand. I have not been able to test this in Internet Explorer 7, and IE 6 does not render the comments section correctly. Also, I need to redo the About, Archives, Links, and Contact pages to fit both the new design, and provide new content. Finally there will be some tweaking here and there of small design elements as I get used to using the new design.

If you have any comments, praise, complaints, bug reports, or other issues, please post them in the comments. I am very anxious to hear what you think.

1. I had originally planned to use a plugin to dynamically replace all the headings with images using Clarendon, but it was rather flaky, and difficult to format. ↩