Turning Over a New Leaf

It has a been few years since I started this blog. I had chosen one of the stock templates offered by Blogspot, and never felt the need to put too much effort into customizing it. Even when Blogspot/Blogger released the new templates, which I have to admit are much nicer than the ones before, yet that alone did not justify switching templates.

This changed today when I realized that the new templates could have a maximum width of 1000px while the old templates had a fixed width. This is something I had desperately needed. The usable area for a text of a blog post was around 460px. The source code snippets and console output dumps which I include in my posts as pre-formatted text often wrap around or need to be scrolled due to the limited width of the post area.

With the new template the usable area for the blog post text is approximately 670px. It doesn't seem like much of an improvement, but it makes a huge difference!

The new design took effect at 11:47pm PST today. It is a slightly modified version of one of the new stock designs. I am not yet done tweaking the new blog design, but I feel that this is a good starting point... for now.

Here is a screenshot of this post with the previous blog template I used, included here more for the sake of nostalgia than anything else.