New Look, New Directions

Hopefully you’ve noticed the new look. It’s fall here, which is my favourite time for change. It’s also a time to start thinking about harvesting from the hard work of winter and spring, and the steady growth of summer. The design is a major step towards that harvest. While I enjoyed the clean and stripped down look of the previous blog, it worked best to present a post a day, in a steady stream. Looking at the traffic patterns on the blog, that’s what was happening. People showed up to read the days post, and that was it. That’s all well and good, but when an odd post got people talking, I’d get a big influx of new readers. I’d see a small spike in recent posts as people wandered around to see what else had been written, but not much. It was hard to work through the other material,…