Metaplanar Babel

Yes, you’re seeing correctly. Babel has a new look (yes, again). I’m pretty proud of this one, amazingly. As usual, the kinks in IE haven’t been worked out yet. One of these days I’ll actually do that rather than starting up a new design.

Anyway, this site was the major inspirational push that got this new design going. I don’t think I ripped it off overly much (I hope), I just really dig the wing silhouette idea. The wing graphic I used for the outline is borrowed from Exile Designs, because my graphics skills are minimal at best.

Other than the graphics and color scheme, not much has changed. I’m not sure this is really a step forward, from a coding standpoint, because I had to use a few not-quite-kosher (from a semantics standpoint) constructions to make things work, but overall, I find the look very pleasing. I’m not 100% sure that the asides column works, since I don’t tend to write massively long posts, but we’ll see. For now, we’re going to put two posts on the main page to see if that helps balance it a bit.

As always, opinions are welcome.