Redesign Goodness
Welcome to a blog that will be rarely updated! Seriously, I’ll do my best to create unique tutorials for this site sporadically, but mostly I’ll be focusing on Nettuts+ and ThemeForest for new tutorials.
With that said, this new design is obviously very minimal – just how I like it! I’m not an “artist” at heart, and only want to get my information across as quickly as possible. As such, when designing this new WordPress theme, I set a goal of using zero images. While I came really close, I did end up using a couple for the layout. Nevertheless, this site should be super-fast – especially once I compress and cache everything.
Now that’s not to say that this site wasn’t built using the latest tools and standards! It was created with:
- WordPress 2.8
- jQuery Framework
- 960 CSS Framework (though not entirely necessary)
- Plenty of CSS3 goodness
- Cufon font replacement
So the site is, more or less, finished. The code needs to be cleaned up, a few plugins installed, and some optimization. But overall, I’m happy with it. It’s clean, simple, and perfect for the two posts each month that I’ll be making. 
Question
I decided to remove the search functionality all together. Yesterday, it occurred to me that I rarely, if ever, search for something on a blog. Instead, I sporadically visit, read the last batch of articles, and move on. Should it be returned, considering how the WordPress search mechanism is rubbish to begin with?
Also
Be sure to review the Vault to find a list of all of my tutorials and screencasts!