The New Look

What do you think of the new Panes of Glass? For the longest time, I’ve been wanting to do this, and I finally found some time this weekend, when I was able to finally sit upright for any amount of time. For the longest time, I have neglected the actual look and design and focused on writing my own software. I realized in Dublin that while writing software is really cool and interesting to me, it’s not my end goal. My end goal is to write, and as you can tell, I have not been doing much of that since I have spent what little time was left me on trying to learn programming languages and writing software that is still incomplete.

So I’m giving that up and sticking with WordPress. Let’s face it, it’s one of the best and easiest to use applications out there for blogging, and despite my earlier protests, that’s what I’m doing. I still want to add a menu bar for my pages instead of using another listing on the sidebar, but I’m not going to worry to much about that just now.

I also got Gallery 2 installed and embedded into WordPress using WPG2, so you can see all of my pictures without having to “leave” my site. I’m really excited about that! It was the hardest part of finishing off my current look. It also makes inserting pictures into my blog much easier.

Finally, I’m making use of the newest WordPress feature: widgets. These are draggable sidebar items that let you organize and order the sidebar any way you like. You can even create your own in almost no time! It’s a real treat and definitely makes customizing the site that much easier.