Technovangelism

Not trying to kill anyone, but here is the refresh my blog so badly needed. The old theme made it far too difficult to find the RSS feed link. I typically use the special Firefox or Safari link to grab the RSS url, but finally realized Chrome does not do this, so a link that is a little more in your face will fix that.

I did not do anything fun to design, but have been planning this for quite some time. I drew a lot of inspiration from the lightword theme. Feel free to comment and tell me if it does not look right in Windows or IE.

New Feature 1

Check out your address bar! My first attempt at drawing a favicon. Now that I’m a Mac, access to the fantastic Expression Design is a little more difficult to come by, so I downloaded the trial of Adobe Illustrator CS4. I have never used Illustrator before so it took some time to get even my incredibly basic favicon drawn. This tutorial was incredibly useful, and I have now started reading blog.spoongraphics because of it. Check out my pitiful attempt in full-size vector glory:

New Feature 2

An RSS feed for comments on my blog does exist, but FeedBurner is terribly slow about updating it. So, like all of life’s problems, this one can be solved with a plugin (it works fine on my WordPress 2.7.1 install even though it says it is only compatible up to 2.3.1). If you comment on one of my posts, feel free to subscribe to that thread and be notified via email that new comments have been posted to only that thread.