[col-sect][column]Those of you folks who know me know that a good portion of the enjoyment that I get out of running this site is derived from fine-tuning its design. On one hand it’s a way to keep the design muscle limber and on the other the toil involved works well with my constant state of never being satisfied and always wanting to make things better. But at this very moment I am satisfied. Not sure how long it will last but right now I feel the site has reached its apex of coolness and well, prettiness. The current scheme, revised just an hour ago, is based on a rigorous order of three columns of equal widths: one on the left for navigation and the other two for  content and yeah, I’m still riding off the emotional glory of finally achieving multiple text columns (via the WP-columnize plugin). For those who don’t know, I am not a coder, I am not a web-design guy, [/column][column]I’m totally self-taught and I have little patience for the inanity of the trial and error involved with CSS, HTML and PHP — so this column thing was a minor victory and thanks to WP-columnize it was pretty easy.  Although I can’t stand the coding part, not that I am doing doing any high-level complicated work, like at all, despite my distaste for toiling with code and the very CONCEPT of having to toil with code to achieve a graphic result – completely absurd; it should be wysiwyg – the only reason I get anything code production work done is that tenacious single-mindedness marginally edges out the aversion. Marginally. I just get focussed on something and it has to get done. Even if it takes two years… which it has. So a toast to the site and its beauty. For all the late nights and the brutal learning curve and the struggling to find a balance between simplicity/cleanliness and usable interface, One-seventh, here’s to you. [/column][/col-sect]

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