My life: a constant work in progress and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
- Set Your Goals: Work In Progress

In keeping with my goal of changing what I write about here, I’m working on a redesign for this site that’s basically built from the ground up. It’s not as quick and dirty as my old designs. I am taking my time and, ever the iconoclast, I plan to buck a few growing trends observed by Nick La.

I have a few personal style guidelines I have in mind whenever get to designing my own site. For one, I never use any sort of image replacement techniques where text presented in an image is concerned. I tend to browse with images turned off and I find it easier to style alt texts through CSS. Try it some time; you might like it. This year, I think minimalism is dead. And finally, I’m not a big fan of Web 2.0-style gradients, even though Anthem Of Our Dying Days uses something very, very close to them in the background.

I will probably place a few sketches on my site between now and the design release. I think it’s time I approach this project the way *ahem* real designers *ahem* do.