Simplicity of Style

I've always stated that I wanted d-generation.ca to be simple, clean, and efficient. As many of you will remember, the initial design for the opening page was white with my "mission statement", followed by a simple navigation bar to the various areas of the site. In the last update, I streamlined that even further, through collapsing everything into the multi-purpose weblog, Don't You Hate Pants?

Personally, although I like each thing ordered in its own kind, -- "everything in its right place" and all that, it's the metaphysicist in me that earned a philosophy degree -- I always felt that having everything scattered about here and there was unnecessary clutter, and not the easiest to navigate. That's the intial reason why I switched to a one-stop blog. Yet, to me "everything in the same place" didn't quite work either, so I branched out and decided to embrace this Movable Type method of blogging.

The appeal, largely, of Movable Type was the categorisation it allows. Now, you can look up anything under the category of "comics" and be awed at the fact that there's nothing there, but eventually, you'll see everything of its kind with kind. ...and you've still got everything, all at once, on the main page.

Of course, there are compromises to be made with such "improvements". Namely, nothing is simple any more. It may look simple on your end, but the architecture housing this puppy is bloated and overcomplicated -- and that's after I pared down the useless bits I'd never touch.

Anyway, welcome to the new blog, same as the old blog. I'll still be tweaking things in the coming days, so expect some more changes.