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I pulled an almost all-nighter, but I was able to rewrite the entire theme from scratch and add some enhancements like AJAX commenting with direct replies, a tag cloud, reduced the number of categories, and most importantly my new theme validates against W3C for both CSS and XHTML Strict.

That’s right you read that correctly, I validate against Strict not Transitional.

Gotta say I did a lot of work in the past 9 hours (!) and now I’m going to get some sleep

Perhaps the best part of all of this is I was lukewarm about my last theme, but this new one I really love. My last one was an exploration into not fearing white space and this new one has been an exploration into using red, a colour I have been afraid to use for a long time. Having conquered both a fear of white and of red I fell rather accomplished at the moment.

I plan to fix just a couple remaining annoyances with the theme and package it up for distribution under the GPL titled “White as Snow”.

To bed I go… but first if you have not seen an Ariel Atom and you are a car guy you need to check out the below video.

I was looking at my old blog and noticed of late I have started to go “towards the light” so to say in my design work. I used to always position everything in a field of black, but starting about a year with an overhaul of my portfolio I started to leverage a white field. This change becomes apparent when comparing the old blog with the new one.

I guess one could say I am no longer afraid of white space. In fact, I now believe the reason why most of us artists use a field of black is it is the easy way out. It makes you think less about composition and makes it appear that you have more work then you really do.

It’s not easy “going white”, but I enjoy the challenge because white is so easy to screw up!

Here is a pic of the old blog for comparison.

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