Another new look

As you can almost certainly see, I've given my site a new look, again. This one is substantially less simple than any of my previous ones (although I'd like to think it's still clean), and I think it happens to look pretty good. It's not my own work, of course - the CSS was done by Erwin Aligam, who makes a whole bunch of really nice, neat looking templates available under a Creative Commons license on his website, StyleShout. Thanks, Erwin! Using someone else's template instead of doing another one myself means that (1) my site actually looks good and (2) my silly urges to fiddle with the site layout are promptly satisified before I waste too much time better spent producing, y'know, actual content.

During the reworking of the site, I've tried my best to make sure that any existing bookmarks won't break. You can still access any of my articles at their old URLs, without problems. The main structural change to the site is that a lot of sections from the old site - programming, unix, humanitarian computing, maths and cryptography - have all been subsumed into a larger "writings" section. I did this for two reasons. One was that it made my navigation menu shorter, which better lends itself to certain site designs and layouts. The main reason, though, was because sometimes I want to write something which doesn't neatly fit into any of the above categories, but which is a bit too long and/or formal to make into a blog entry. Having a single writings page means I can dump these miscelaneous things at the bottom and be done with it, rather than having to come up with a whole new section.

Some of you may also have noticed the new "research" section with an unexpected place holding message. Everything regarding this will be explained in a coming entry that I'll probably write tomorrow.