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Ok I’ll admit it – I’m very indecisive. I can hardly ever leave things alone, and I have to fiddle, as I can never decide what looks better, or what I want to do etc. It’s very prevalent in my relationship with Smoo – we’re both the same, and we both find it hard to come to a decision on things (to be honest, its normally on really inane things like what movie to watch etc… anything important we’re normally pretty good at deciding the correct course of action).

So… as you can see… I’ve fiddled with my blog… again. Yep that makes it the first changeover of 2009, but within the last 2-3 months I’ve messed with the design about four times altogether. (Sorry!)

My reasoning is that I’m trying to find a design that’s easy to navigate, but easy to read and get to where you’re trying to go (if that makes sense). Previously I’ve had to fiddle with plugins because things wouldn’t link back to the homepage etc, and it really started to piss me off. This design is different.

I’ve gone for a magazine-style layout to make things more legible… and I’m prettymuch done. I’ve also culled my categories down to 7, as they just weren’t necessary. Although with the categories displayed on the homepage completely separately, it means that there are some duplicate thumbnails displaying at the moment (that will change when I post a bit more regularly as I want to limit the amount of categories I assign to a particular post).

I’ve also added a few new plugins… one of the coolest ones being the Insights plugin that allows you to search and insert content into your post as you write it. This allows me to add the following image from flickr without leaving the edit screen:

You can also search and embed Google Maps (API needed), Video (Youtube), Wikipedia and more.

Anyway I hope you prefer this layout – if you find anything confusing, please let me know and I’ll tweak things as best as possible to make things easier to read and navigate etc.

All the best for the new year everyone!

Jay

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