Today would be the first official day of what I’m going to call an experiment. Beaten to a bloody pulp by how slowly Movable Type 4 runs on my dreamhost hosted personal website, I’ve been absent from posting links, photos, videos and other niceties on the web.

I have, indeed, been designing a new version of that website. And yes, I am planning to put it together using Expression Engine. But the lull of inactivity has made me grow anxious. So, with some trepidation I decided to throw together a Tumblr blog to keep me on my toes while that project is in development. And that is what you see before you. 

Let me add that the design and production of this tumblr blog took me all of two days. Inspired I have created a design that emphasizes the uniqueness of a tumbleblog. Instead of simply one “river” of content where everything is dumped, like every other tumblr blog, I’ve created different “streams.” The diagram in the header of this page is a reflection of that. It also serves to break up some of the monotony of the grid. 

I’m not sure if this is an improvement over the “river” format of a blog, but at the very least, it serves to remind that a website doesn’t have to be a one, two or three column blog with a sidebar. 

I should also mention that because this design was a rush job it is a little rough around the edges right now. Think of this as the first iteration, provided live for you to gawk at. Also, tumblr isn’t the greatest platform for web standards best practices and all the CSS is inline. Someday I may port this design if I feel like it enough to something more reflective of best practices. 

Also, I have not tested this in any other browser besides Safari at the moment. It is likely that it breaks in Internet Explorer 6 and probably 7. It may even break in Firefox, and some things don’t work at all. For example, the Archive/RSS links at the top are not functioning. Something that I will look into as soon as I can. 

It’s a brave new blogging world out there.