//nedward.org

It was a long time coming, but I gave this weblog yet another design tweak, con­vert­ing the horrid image map nav­i­ga­tion to CSS-styled unordered lists.

This design has served me well for the past 2+ years… a major re-​design has been in plan­ning for more than a year, but I almost enjoy tweak­ing this one more. There is value in constancy.

The real motive for doing this, is that my cat­e­gory choices for posts have been lim­ited to the same 5: books, music, movies, fea­tures, and posts… I couldn’t add new cat­e­gories, because the image nav­i­ga­tion, and com­plex script­ing behind its dis­play wouldn’t allow for it.

Stupid right? Design­ing with flex­i­bil­ity is some­thing that I am learning… pixel-​perfect, heavily-​graphical sites can turn out to be a pigeonhole.

Maybe I just needed 2+ years to strip away, and un-​design it to the point where the con­tent becomes the most impor­tant component.

Anyway, every­thing is a bit in flux at the moment, so there might be fur­ther changes to come.