I’ve launched the new curtishenson.com! But what has changed? It looks the same! Well it wasn’t a complete redesign but a realign. I’ve launched a premium wordpress theme called Chocolate and this site now reflects that new direction.

The homepage is now much more useful and will change with the focus of the site. My aim was to have a big bold homepage that will be very dynamic and reflect my current projects. And to be a bit of eye candy.

New font! I love fonts, I love sIFR and I love Avant Garde! I think Avant Garde is much more appealing font and more fitting than delicious was.

I can’t read it, it is too dark. Yes the sidebars, headings, and other elements are much darker than they were. I want the focus of the user to be on the content, not distracted by doodads and widgets. Everything is still very readable but blends in with the background when not focused on, which allows me to really pop things out I want you to see.

Code! Yes the code has been changed, and in fact is still changing. The Blueprint CSS framework has been updated to the latest version(more on that later). The wordpress code has changed and hopefully the site is smoother and more well behaved. I will also be consolidating my wordpress theme files down to minimum and will be writing a tutorial about that very soon! I’ve also upgraded the cache to WP Super Cache, and phpSpeedy is handling the compression. The end result, I hope, is a fast agile tiger like website!

Oh yeah I added flickr in my sidebar, thats right I’m one of the cool kids now.