i've been thinkng about re-designing this site for a while, and today it just happened. please excuse the clutter round here as i tidy things up - spring clean time i think, time for a fresh start. i've been in a similar mode in my actual house. lounge room is in a shambles at the moment but the kitchen is looking great. mark and i found some cheap vinyl tiles at our recently discovered *local* warehouse store - which i am quite pleased about. i'm a sucker for discount shopping, especially for around-the-house things. the warehouse rocks. i used to love trawling through the morrabbin and cranbourne stores whenever we found ourselves in the area, but i'm happy to report that the footscray store is massive, and very well organised. the other two have the tendency to get quite chaotic sometimes.
anyway, back to the website. i've gone for a cleaner, leaner, easier to maintain look this time around. i was getting frustrated with all the tricky code on the other one. i had this idea about using bindis or tikkas for the nav images. so i woke up this morning, washed the dishes, and sat down at the laptop - and now, about twelve hours later (including multiple toilet breaks, and some time to cook dinner), i have designed my new site. i even made the images myself. i feel very satisfied and accomplished, though i am afraid i will stay up all night tinkering with it if i don't make myself go to bed. ah, well. we'll see how we go.
ps let me know what you reckon of the new look!
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update - i have now completely finished the re-design, and am also in the process of putting together an email list to post updates out to. there is a link at the bottom of the page you can follow to sign up if you like :)