Aaaand we’re done! If you notice something looks weird or doesn’t work, please either leave a comment or e-mail me. Be sure to note:

• Browser (including version number)
• Windows, Mac, or Linux

In case you’ve forgotten already, here’s what the blog used to look like:

The new design has the same feel as the old one, but should load faster and it makes better use of the available screen space. The trade-off is that it’s less friendly to those at 800×600 and below.

Less Obvious Changes:

• New pattern templates. Achernar has been significantly re-worked, the rest just got a facelift.
• About/Contact pages are gone. Everything you need to know is in the top right corner.
• New commenting functions and organization. Go ahead, try it! We’ve got gravatars, threaded comments, and subscribe to comments so you can get an e-mail whenever a new comment is posted.

Plus lots of nifty changes to the backend that make my life easier.

And remember that scarf pattern? It will be up later this week. A sneak peek (unless you’ve already seen my Ravelry projects):

I’ll be rolling out and adjusting the new theme over the next few hours. Please hold all “things are wonky” comments until I give the all-clear signal—I’m switching from a non-widget 2-column theme to a widget-ready 3-column theme so things will disappear and reappear and move around as I port things over.

Edit: I’d estimate I’m 2/3 of the way done. I still need to fix the pattern pages and add them back to the sidebar and also check the feed. But I’m going to take a wee break to watch Good Eats!

Edit 2: I’m just about done for tonight. There’s still a lot of work I want to do on the pattern pages and I want to re-write the comments template, among other things, but this will do until I can pick it up again tomorrow afternoon/evening.

Edit 3, the next day: The only thing that’s left (I hope) is to re-write the comments template to take advantage of some new features in WordPress 2.7

Usually nothing breaks, but this is a pretty major update, so….

Edit: …and we’re back! Everything looks ok so far (other than the typically slow-loading Amazon widget), but let me know if you notice anything wonky.