As I’ve mentioned before, gradual changes are the way I do design. That said, though, I think I’ve come to a resting point in what I’ve been calling rhyleyDotOrgWp 0.1†, and it occurs to me I haven’t yet mentioned the header that I’m so very proud of. In the unlikely event that you’re actually visiting this page with your browser, look above for some great typography. The main title font is called Lido STF, and the subheading is in Gentium. The former is freeware, and Gentium is open source — which, by the by, is a fascinating trend I’d like to see continue.

† Yeah, I suck at the art of naming things. I suppose it’s a good thing that’s a dead art form.

It’s a very iterative process for me. My first web site was a two-celled table, and I can trace the design of this weblog, up until the change to wordpress, all the way back to that original, primitive ancestor. That is how I design, change by tiny change. I have never in my life considered opening photoshop first when designing something, my primary tools are a text editor and a browser. Save, reload, repeat.

All this, naturally, is my way of explaining why this still looks a lot like the default wordpress template, with a few tiny changes that normal people (ie, not me) probably wouldn’t notice. I did, I think, manage to put my signature on it with an economy of changes though. And by ‘my signature’ I mean the Three Orange Dots™.

As somewhat of a fan and a follower of neologisms, let me say first that I find the word itself appalling. Podcast. Oy. But. I’ve been told I have a nice voice. I’ve spent the last four years of my life, less this last little stretch, talking for a living. I’ve finally had to admit that I now find talking to be a lot easier than writing, a bit of a switch for someone whose ‘aha’ moment with the internet involved using it to express a ragged bloody scream of adolescent rage and alienation that he couldn’t express any other way. So, yeah, 1) bright new medium still mostly uncluttered due to hosting costs being what they are, 2) I have the technology and possibly the skill, but 3) the question remains: do I have anything to say? This is all I have to say today.