Nothing Changed

I disappeared for a while. A virus was going around killing blogs, my friend ended up 850 kilometers away in a hospital, and I coded myself into exhaustion trying to redesign this site. At some point I wanted to throw the whole thing—the code, the browser, all of it—in the trash.

Started simple. New background. New header. Then I heard about CSS3 Grid Layout and decided I needed it immediately, which meant redesigning the entire site. Minimal, clean, Times New Roman aesthetic. Perfect on day one. Nothing on day two. And CSS3 wasn’t even officially out yet, so I was basically building fantasies.

Killed that design and built something else. Spent nights on it. Got it working in Safari, Firefox, Opera. Beautiful. Valid. Then I opened it in Internet Explorer and the whole thing fell apart. Checked the damage, sent Microsoft an angry email, tried to sleep, heard the sirens.

Here’s the new site. I know it doesn’t look like much changed. You’re probably right. This is what web design is—most of the work you do disappears. You stay up all night fighting with code and browsers, and in the end nothing looks different. But it did change. Something did. Anyway. Update your feed. Berlin.