After much thought over the past few weeks I’ve come to the realization that I’m not satisfied with the design of this site. I suppose my aforementioned Designatitus has kicked in once again and the designer in me has decided to do a complete overhaul of this site, including:

1. Code from scratch instead of relying on Movable Type templates as a basis to the design. Granted, using templates to build from is fine but it’s like making a cake from fresh ingredients — in the end it just tastes better.

2. Restructure the layout. Rely less on trying to emulate other designs and instead create something of my own. I’m an artist and intepretation of design is imminent, but having something that feels like your own is generally more satisfying.

3. Utilizing more MT code, I would like to have something more robust and feature rich. Focusing my intentions on building this site to be much more than a blog.

4. Compress the categories into 4 or 5 categories instead of the number that exists now. I’d much rather focus my attention and writing on a few choice topics instead of trying to cover everything that comes to mind or things that I’ve found on the Internet. Sites like boingboing.net are doing this already and I don’t want to reinvent the wheel. This site was created for much more than trivia and moreso to showcase my design work and research.

I’d expect this will take me anywhere from 2 weeks to a span of a few months considering I don’t wish to rush this redesign. I’d much rather do my research making the end result more appealing to the point where I can focus on writing, instead of constantly re-designing this site.