A New Look

<div><p>Just a quick note to point out that I changed the look and feel of this blog. I was a blogging n00b when I started this back in May and wasn’t sure how it should really work; I just knew I wanted to blog and I wanted it to look cool so I spent a few hours surfing around for templates until I found one I liked. After 8 months and 40 posts I realized that an update was in order. For the new look I stated with the “Denim” theme provided by Blogger and dinked around with the CSS to make the content area fluid while keeping the sidebar a fixed width. I’ve also opened up anonymous comments, backlinks, and a few graphics here and there for eye candy. I’m not at the point where I ultimately want to be with how things look, and I’ll work some incremental changes in here and there but the main change is done. I think the design is simple, clean, and provides plenty of room for the most important thing – content. </p> <p>Coincidentally, as I was working on the refresh <a href="http://www.brentozar.com/" target="_blank">Brent Ozar</a> published a series on how to start a technical blog which provided some good advice. If you currently write a blog or are thinking about writing one I highly recommend you read his series here: <a href="http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/12/how-to-start-a-technical-blog/" target="_blank">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/12/how-to-start-a-technical-blog-part-2-wordpress/" target="_blank">Part 2</a>, <a href="http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/12/how-to-start-a-technical-blog-part-3-wordpress-plugins/" target="_blank">Part 3</a>, <a href="http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/12/how-to-start-a-technical-blog-part-4-wordpress-themes/" target="_blank">Part 4</a>, and <a href="http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/12/how-to-start-a-technical-blog-part-5-blog-etiquette/" target="_blank">Part 5</a>.</p> <p>Finally, feel free to drop me a comment and let me know what you think or what else you would change.</p> </div>

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