Metaplanar Babel

I’m still plugging away at my new design. It’s up in the prototype phase at the moment - it’s the one called babelv2, if you want to take a look at it (just a warning, it doesn’t look pretty in IE yet - it works, it’s just ugly). Thanks to Brendan for sharing his discoveries and bits of code. His explanation of how his front page operates was extremely helpful.

I really am impressed with what can be done, template-wise, with Wordpress. I’ve done the Blogger thing, fiddled with Greymatter a bit, and poked around in a few others, but the sheer customizability in Wordpress is tremendous. Sure, you have to learn a bit of PHP to really get the most out of it, but the very fact that you can is impressive by itself. I’ve seen complaints in various places about how Wordpress needs a few essential plugins before it is comparable to the other applications out there, but I’m almost inclined to think that’s a positive thing. The last thing WP needs is to become another bloated, overgrown piece of work that tries to do it all, whether you want it to or not. That’s what makes Firefox great, too - it does what it does damn well and doesn’t try to overwhelm you with a bunch of stock bells and whistles.

Anyway, I’m curious to see what folks think of the new design thus far; I could use some constructive criticism at this point, before I get too attached to what I have.

Edit: As a sidenote, cruinh and I have noticed that, in WP 1.5.1, private posts are actually showing up on the blog defaultly when logged in as the author and not showing otherwise. cruinh says they don’t show up in the feeds either. Spiffy, ne?