Rodent Regatta

A new weblog crossed my path this morning. By way of Kottke’s Remaindered Links, I learned of Speak Up.

The design caught my eye. I’m aiming for something decidedly understated when the redesign of this weblog takes place. We’ll be moving from red and bold lines to something subdued and lighter.

Others showed the way.

”Here are the conditions: it has to work on Movable Type, be XHTML Strict, and have a look that works across three sites (this one, LazyWeb and Book of Blog). It also has to deal nicely with images inside the entry, and I’m a biiiig fan of nice typography. Despite what Cory says, curly quotes are sweet. Anyhow, I’m looking for a global look’n’feel that I can extend across all three sites and any more I think of in the next year or so.

You can recode my templates, use MT plugins, PerlScript, PHP, anything but Flash, and extra points will be given to designs that keep the bytecount down. Netscape 4 need not be supported, but I get an increasing number of hits from mobile devices, so bear that in mind.”

Ben Hammersley

Now it’s time to learn how to get there from here. Some of us don’t have the traffic to command this sort of attention, but we’ll get the checkbook out!