More of a reformation than a redesign
I’ve been looking with interest at the comments generated by Jason kottke’s redesign.
What he has done is folded a number of distinct features into one on his index page. It works but the remained links (or list o links or b-links or whatever) do not look quite right when they sit at the top. Which is probably to be expected because the whole point of b-links was to separate out short, uncommented on links from the *content*.
Still the rest of it, where it mixes movie reviews and the like into his main content works really well with distinct styles for each different type; separate blogs in fact.
It is something I tried a while ago, but failed miserably to sort out (I had three blogs at one point; the others died). However, it comes a the price of considerable hacking of MT and that has generated some good discussion from the likes of “Anil Dash”:http://www.dashes.com/anil/ and “Mena Trott”:http://www.sixapart.com/ on the nature of weblogging and its future.
Makes me more determined to write my own weblogging system that will do exactly as I tell it without templates and dogdy Perl hackery. If I start tomorrow, you think I’ll have it finished by tthe time England win the Rugby World Cup?
(In the comments, I found a link to a “rather nice looking site too”:http://www.subtraction.com/ )