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Newness

Okay, here we go.

I’ve actually been working on this new design for months. MONTHS. Because not only did I want a new design (the easy part) I wanted to stop using Movable Type and roll my own blog with Django. And even though Django is super-powerful and easy, I kept getting distracted by work, life, and sometimes sleeping.

There’s a few things I really like about my new site. First, I ditched all archives pre-2004. That old stuff makes me cringe, and it was time to drop it and forget all of those college years ever happened. Next, I wanted to bring back my links page but in a much, much cooler way, so what happens now is every thirty minutes or so I grab all of your feeds and update my data. That way, links are ordered by whomever has updated most recently, and I link off to whatever your most recent post is as well (with an excerpt). Finally, I have a little reviews section, which is where I’m going to put brief thoughts on movies and music and possibly books if I ever read any of those.

Enjoy! I’ll be ironing out some wrinkles in the next few days, so email me if you come across anything weird.


22 Comments

Hooray Django!

Posted by James on 8 December 2006 @ 1am

wow!

wow!

Posted by Rachel on 8 December 2006 @ 2am

Well done, Maura. Love the swashies up top (yes, I just invented the word “swashies”). :)

Posted by Jeff Croft on 8 December 2006 @ 2am

Looking good! I like the media reviews section, and I love the header. Awesome!

Posted by Aubrey on 8 December 2006 @ 12pm

It looks lovely as pie. No problems here.

Posted by Meredith on 8 December 2006 @ 12pm

It looks great!! :)

Posted by Teresa on 8 December 2006 @ 12pm

It’s really pretty. Very nice layout.

Posted by cristinamarie on 8 December 2006 @ 2pm

I’ve been sneaking peaks for a couple weeks (poet!) and absolutely love it, maybe even my favorite yet.

Posted by deb on 8 December 2006 @ 3pm

Ack! What happened to live comment previews? Now how will I ever know what my comments look like before I make the great commitment of pressing the Post button?

Posted by Shaun on 8 December 2006 @ 4pm

This revision is so great, it gives me chills. I’m actually kind of scared.

Posted by Leslie on 8 December 2006 @ 4pm

lovely! :)

…I have to admit, I got a sneek peak the other day when I saw a link here in my referrer stats. I loved it then and I love it now! Great work!

Posted by Jen on 8 December 2006 @ 4pm

oh maura i love your new design. the swirlies make me happy and the white and brown is beautiful. the f in your title is a pleasant design element and it makes me happy to know that you enjoy good clean design too :)

Posted by andrea on 8 December 2006 @ 4pm

Looks good!

Posted by Eric on 8 December 2006 @ 8pm

love!

LOVE!! :)

Posted by Cori on 8 December 2006 @ 8pm

Everything looks awesome. I love all the whitespace.

Posted by C on 8 December 2006 @ 11pm

how fancy.

Posted by alexis on 8 December 2006 @ 11pm

hotness.

Posted by Josh Blount on 9 December 2006 @ 7am

wow i really like the new design.

Posted by jason on 9 December 2006 @ 8am

Very classy, I love the links page and how nicely organised everything is!

Posted by Jasmin on 10 December 2006 @ 5am

LOVE the new layout! Simple and beautiful!

Posted by .ryanjon on 10 December 2006 @ 8pm

Being that I have a googliezed blog that’s rarely updated, I’m sure I’m the last person allowed to bear upon you criticism. I like near everything about the site…. except that horrid color green used in the date. What’s with everybody’s facination for ugly shades of green? Don’t get me wrong, I love peas. Just not the color of canned ones. Other than that, I do dig. Fancy F by the way.

Posted by Nevkil on 11 December 2006 @ 12am

ooooh, would love to hear more about django. i’m on wordpress still.

Posted by suki on 12 December 2006 @ 4am