TastyTrixie.com

Here it is (kinda)! Wider and fleshier in 2009.

The main thing I want to point out is in the left sidebar: a contact form for bloggers who want to exchange links (or who’ve been linking to me forever and want to bring it to my attention). I know my blogroll is outdated and there are tons of people who are linking to me (or were, until they gave up on me) but since I so rarely check my stats (and the site I used for years to track stats took a dive last year so I kind of gave up completely at that point) I just don’t know about it. Now I have a more systematic way of being notified and following through. I hope my bloggy colleagues will make use of it!

I still have a work to do (updating the FAQs, adding and subtracting links, updating the blogroll, etc.), the code is REALLY ugly (I don’t have any plans to fix that any time soon), and it doesn’t look at all “web 2.0″, but all I care about is that it works and is slight improvement over the old blue blog. I actually REALLY hate three column layouts with the content in the middle because I’m totally distracted by the shit in the sidebars. Unfortunately I didn’t want to spend more than eight hours on this so I just kept it simple and assumed most people aren’t as easily distracted as I am (and most people are using feedreaders now anyway – maybe).

After I clean this up some more I need to move onto redesigning the whole free area of my site. I’m feeling overwhelmed by the task(s), but it has to be done. I might end up going with A LOT of white space which will be effective for surfers and a good challenge for me (should be simpler, but with my tendency to stack one mess on top of another, maybe not).

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