After much searching for a theme, much understanding of how it worked, and a LOT of futzing with it, here is the new look.

You can see in the montage image how the look has changed from the last incarnation. Predominantly, the layout has been altered to provide a more feature-focussed front page and a new style to go with it.

You’ll find a lead article with its nice big photo and several other feature articles which will stay on the left until I decide they should move. The regular ’stream’ of articles will roll up the centre of the page over time as before.

The sidebar has been somewhat simplified and may yet undergo some more change. For now, you can access the much-reduced list of categories for major groupings of articles and the new tags for a more detailed approach. So far I have tagged only the articles published this year. Soon I will go back through previous years and do some tagging there. Well, I tell myself I will do it soon.

So, here it is – it’s designed to be visited. Much as I’d prefer you keep up with RSS than not at all, please do drop by now and again to take in the new look and check out what’s featuring.

Edit: I should have added thanks to my brother for some style hints which made a good design great.