New look, no reason

Posted on February 26, 2004 by Gene

I just felt like changing things here. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to look all that great with Internet Explorer — a browser that I find to be a true piece of crap. I can’t decide if I should fix things so that they render correctly in the non-standard IE so that the majority of visitors benefit, or be true to my principles and say “damn the majority.” Just because IE holds a near monopoly on computers doesn’t mean I have to support it.
Regardless, after having sketched out the page and built it last night, I must admit that I’m not overly fond of it. You know, I’m a designer by trade, and yet it seems that lately I have lost all the abilities I once had to design nice things. Now I just kind of slide by, and I’m rather ashamed by it.
I’m afraid I now fit the derisory comment I made years ago about another designer: “He’s a designer like Chef Boyardee is a chef.”
What do you think? Like the new layout or hate it? Should I put the old one back and then rethink it?