Reboot

Four years after it first launched, Yummy Yarn has a redesign. I'll keep it short: it fits a 1024 x 968 pixel browser, it's 3 columns, and it was created in Movable Type 4.1*. There's more white space, a revised logo, and things have been moved around or added, most notably a Patterns page and a new Contact address. I see pattern publishing in my future.

The biggest change is in my copyright, which now allows others to use my images with explicit permission, for which you'll have to email me.

I've been eager to get this redesign off my plate, because I've got lots of finished knits—and a pattern—to show. I'll call this version a work-in-progress, as I still have to refine a few things.

1: My masthead isn't finalized, and I want to be able to change it from month to month (or season to season, depending on my laziness).
2: Fine-tune the global nav items. DONE
3: Reorganize sidebar assets. SKIP
4: Reformat the galleries.
5: Captcha widget not working! Thanks, everyone, for alerting me to the comments flub. I seem to have dropped the widget somewhere in my code, so I just changed the comments setting for now. DONE
6: Permalink not working. DONE. Quick fix: make one-word titles moving forward.

And so on. But first, some sleep!

* If you're thinking of upgrading to MT 4.1, know that every major asset has been modularized and has its own template. It'll drive you nuts for a while, but persevere and you'll get it after a few days. I've waited for this move into modularization since I first started blogging, having done a bit of it on my original blog design. The application, however, starts to get messy when you get to the stylesheets and the sidebar, with so many variables when a handful would do. Six Apart's figured out that people want a friendly stylesheet, releasing a wysiwyg assistant whose code you can just paste into the front-end templates. But for those hobby coders (me!) who want a complete facelift, be prepared to spend hours and hours of time in the application!