I did it! I redesigned my website. I got rid of the skins and everything. I pulled a design from OWD.org and ported it to WordPress. It took a lot of tweaking to get everything the way I wanted it; instead of one big content box I wante one box per post, and I wanted comments and the reply section to have their own boxes as well. I did a bit of tweaking to the CSS for blockquotes and list items, although I wasn’t able to come up with a way to use the fancy quote graphics from the original design in a manner that would be backwards-compatible with old posts on my site. But I got my fancy corners, it’s somewhat shiny, my wife said it was very easy to read, and in general I’m just very proud of myself.

The only thing I don’t like is that it’s only two columns. I realized there is a lot of content I’d like to cram into sidebars. So I might wind up switching to something three-column eventually…but for now I get happy just looking at the new design, so I’ll be using it for a little while. Oh, and I managed to get my Twitter status in there too! So whatever you see in the “right now” block really is from the date/time it claims to be.

(LiveJournal users and RSS readers, click here to view the design.)