This new design has some pretty nice features that I’d like to point out, in case you haven’t noticed them yet:

* **No Google Ads** — lets say I made close to nothing of the few months that I did have the ads going on here. Besides, the quality of the ads was always in question. And less Javascript it always good, right?
* The home page shows just the most recent post by default. There is a lists of previous posts further down. I read at a bunch of places that very long web pages (that you could keep on scrolling forever) are bad at holding attention. Besides, I expect that increasing number of visitors will land on individual posts through RSS feeds. As a good side affect, the home page should load faster.
* [[http://floatingsun.net/blog/archives/|Archives]] — the archives should be very easy to navigate, provide you use a Good ™ browser. You can navigate by date or by tags. Pretty funky, me thinks
* The home page also lists the most recent comments, asides and del.icio.us links
* There is NO sidebar. I was tired of the conventional design, so this is a shot at something new.
* I’m gradually going to fold in all of my static content (at [[http://floatingsun.net]]) into WordPress. The “About” and “Research” sections have already started to come together, so feel free to take a look.

Of course, this is all possible due to the excellent [[http://www.squible.com/squible/|Squible]] theme, WordPress and great plugins, and generous amounts of hacking :-)

Enjoy!