Overly Positive

So I figured that with the fact that I now command a small yet faithful audience of 30+ readers or so, that I should try to peek under the hood of the site and do a little re-design. Those of you who visit the main site (and you should, even though Google Reader does the lifting for you) will see that I did a slight re-design, using a brand new WordPress theme framework created by the same author who did my previous theme. Justin Tadlock, by the way, is a brilliant and smart guy when it comes to WordPress and I highly encourage you to check out his theme framework.

Today I’m heading out with the goal of entering a BBQ coma by the time I come home, so I’m still doing a little work under the hood. But what small benefits you can expect include:

• Threaded comments, so that we can have long exchanges wherein I whittle your cynicism down with annoyingly bright replies to your thoughts.
• Gravatar support – if you use the Gravatar service you can set an avatar for use in your regular comments for the blog. Gravatar is magic, people – go use it today.
• Proper excerpting – Longer posts will probably get an excerpt with a read more link, as soon as I figure out why Feedburner is eating my excerpts for lunch and spitting them out to feed its young.
• Other backend nonsense that only benefits me, but which will basically keep the site clean and not broken.

I’ve also stolen a new smiley off of the Internet. You know, with all the graphics people I know, you’d think I could call in a favor for someone to create one. Ah well – perhaps when I have more motivation. For now, enjoy the new WordPress 2.8-compliant site!