Just in case you are interested, this site is built on Wordpress.  Wordpress is one of the most powerful content management systems in use on the Internet today, and best of all, its free and open source.  I’m just too lazy to put the time and effort into developing my own blogging engine, when someone else has done it for me.  I do know people who have done this – my friend Dave over at the Converse Chronicles developed the entire site from scratch himself.

The theme of this site is “Journalist”, by Lucian E. Marin.  I love the simple interface.  I’m not a fan of a lot of graphics on a page unless it is photos or videos posted along with an article.  Once change to the CSS I did make was the default typeface.  By default the site uses Lucida based san-serif fonts.  My personal preference for a site like this is a serif based font.  I’ve decided to go with a default font of Constantia, a new typeface that was recently released by Microsoft with Vista, Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac.  Many of you many not have this font, so in descending order, the font defaults to Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, and, if no other options are available, the default “serif” font is used to render the site.

I hope you enjoy the simple, streamlined, yet elegant design of this site while you’re here.