Boy, have I been wanting to refresh the look of my site for a long time. Since I’ve been digging in to CSS and site design more lately anyway, this weekend just seemed to work out. Elise Bauer’s Learning Movable Type site has been an invaluable resource, as have the various and sundry Good Samaritans who’ve been kind enough to post their tutorials and tips online. Thanks to you all!

I’m still tweaking and touching up the site here and there, but I think the look is about 80% there. One major thing I want to look at is the right-hand column. The links have been far more static than I would like, in part due to the fact that I really didn’t enjoy dealing with tweaking Movable Type’s Main Index through the web interface. Now, though, I’ve linked the index to an outside template, which should make re-writing it much easier.

I designed the logo in the banner a couple of years ago for my freelance business. Since I’ve recently updated my personal style, I figured the old logo would do just fine for Stumax.com.

Speaking of which, I’m looking for gainful employment, and as this blog doesn’t get a huge amount of traffic anyway, I suppose a bleg wouldn’t be too out of line. If you know of anyone who could use a copywriter, graphics assistance, or technical advice, send them to my online portfolio, would you? Full-time work in Seattle would be most welcome, as would tele-commuting freelance gigs anywhere.

More to come soon, I hope. The job hunt and other projects have slowed down my time for blogging, but I’m still committed to refining both the site and my contributions to the Noise Machine, if only for my own learning and enjoyment.

Hope your Sunday is peaceful and that you didn’t forget to get a little something for your sweetie for tomorrow. (It’s Valentine’s, don’t you know!)

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