After 8 months, I’ve decided to do a slight refresh of MichaelMistretta.com. It’s hard to notice slight changes on other people’s sites, so I thought I’d point out a couple noticeable improvements. If you’re viewing this in RSS, be sure to click through to view the refreshed design.

Refreshed Design

While I had planned to have a complete redesign of the site finished by now, I’ve been caught up in other projects—most notably, The Plank—which have been taking a huge chunk of my time as of late. Better than rush to get too many things done, I’ve decided to postpone the redesign, but still felt it necessary to refresh some things that were bugging me (to say the least).

The background has been darkened, and the font has been changed (thank God, I know). Hopefully, everything is much more legible, and easier to read for long periods of time.

If you want to see just how drastic of a change this makes to the overall feel of the site, check out the before/after shot of the designs.

Colophon

I also decided to completely re-write my Colophon page, as lots has changed over the past 8 months. It’s not easy for me to write about myself, but I think I’ve finally reached something I’m happy with. So if you can’t get enough of me, check it out.

Linked List

I’ve encountered many blog posts that I want to share on my site, but do not warrant a full post. In order to manage these links, I have created a new category of post—Linked List. Similar to what many other bloggers have done, there will be two different types of posts on MichaelMistretta.com.

A linked list post will not display a title when viewed on the home page. You can view all of the linked list posts here.

Having both linked list-style posts and full articles will allow me to update the blog on a much more frequent basis, and I think it will help to mirror more of my interests into the RSS feed as well.

-Michael