Okay, so I redesigned the site, but not much. I didn’t move anything around: actually, I just edited the CSS file and added a background. Maybe the design is more ugly now, but I think it is at least less boring, which matters more. I originally designed the site to look like—or blend in with—the comic, which it did, and which, it turns out, sucked. I really didn’t like how it wasn’t visually obvious where the comic image ended and where the layout images began. So now everything is super discrete.

I think the current look is inspired in part by the look of sites like Twitter, which are part of the current trend towards web design not trying to masquerade as print design and instead embracing the tiling and textures and boxes that were so common a decade ago (but which have been kept alive in MySpace profiles).

And I know I’m not alone when I say I’m actually pretty nostalgic about all those old Angelfire and Geocities pages. I never thought I’d go warm and fuzzy thinking about having to hit CTRL+A just so I could pick out the SimCity 2000 cheat codes from animated .gif backgrounds and spinning skulls and fire borders…

Speaking of fire and skulls, remember this? Oh man oh man oh man.

Anyway, I’ll be rotating the background. The current staticky violent fractal one was made in The GIMP—I just discovered that it comes with a bunch of sweet fractal generation plugins.

Okay! New comic tomorrow. (Actually, later today.)