My blog is currently running on WordPress and I’ve really been satisfied with it for the most part, but when it comes to putting together your own theme … all I can say is, ‘ouch.’ What a hassle! I could be going about it all wrong, but I’m not really motivated enough to download the code and get it running on my local box to figure out the ins and outs of WordPress. So, needless to say … it was a bit painful.

But in an effort to bring my site in to the 21st century … I spent some time today working on a redesign. I’ve often doodled on paper and come up with little sketches for a design. But nothing beats grabbing a few Mountain Dews, cracking open Photoshop and TextMate, and beating the CSS/HTML creativity out of me.

Honestly, it wasn’t all that bad. The hardest part about it was trying to trick WordPress in to thinking I was its daddy. The templates are not the cleanest in the world and digging through old PHP code made me a bit nauseous, but reminded me how much I need to appreciate erb, haml, liquid and the other template engines.

I’d still like to consolidate the front page a little bit and reduce the amount of ‘junk’ that’s getting tossed out on the page. So don’t be surprised if you’re browsing around the site and run in to an issue or two. It should be resolved soon.