21 May 08 Changes At The Eye

Of course, dear reader, you noticed right away. Yes, we’ve got a new look.

It was felt here at The Eye, that perhaps it was getting a little too crowded, that there was perhaps a little too much information on the page.

Did you really need to know what the time was here? If you know where I’m situated, and you’re in the same time zone you know what time it is. If you’re in a different time zone, you probably don’t care.

Of course, we have keep some advertisements which we hope you don’t find overbearing, and indeed hopefully useful on occasions, and we do need to keep the lights on here too, and this blogging lark does cost time and money, even though we enjoy it and it’s fun.

To get to this new look, we spend some of that precious time (it’s like gold around here), looking at various new ideas and themes.

Some looked very nice, and classy, and we actually did do some code rewriting on a couple of them to customize them to what we wanted – and then changed our minds.

There was one them that was really cool, but it wouldn’t allow me to use my flickr images in the way that the designer had got the whole thing set up, and I didn’t want to go re-loading them all again onto my own server. It’s not that I’ve not got the space; it’s that The Eye has been around a few years, and I haven’t got the time to make a few thousand previous postings look pretty.

One day, when I start a whole new blog though, I’ll take a look at some of these more unusual designs again.

Anyway, we hope you like the new look!

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