After a week's worth of hard labor, the Four Questions site re-design project is now complete! I hope you all like the new design; it comes with a few very important and very cool features:

• In choosing the new color scheme I thought for a long time about what would make the site more appealing and more readable. My own eyes had trouble focusing on the words after a while, and I can only imagine what it must have been like for some of my older readers. I stuck with gray as the base color because I like it so much, and added an accent color (Web 2.0-style). Red was the logical choice, especially Lindesy informed me that my original idea of yellow made the site look like an over-boiled egg.
• The menu used to be JavaScript-driven, and it periodically covered the link to my blog with a link to the company that produced the menu. The new menu is 100% CSS and XHTML. That makes it much easier to customize and gets me out from under the thumb of that menu company.
• The entire site is now coded in PHP, which allows me to add and remove content from sections of the site easily. It is very modular, making it much easier to update. Hopefully that will inspire me to add content more often.
• Because of the new PHP back-end, most old links and bookmarks will not work. If you have bookmarks to specific pages you will need to change the .html extension on them to .php, or try to find the page again using the Sitemap.

I have a few more things left to do on the site, but they will have to wait for now. Nothing major, mind you, just some quality-of-surfing things like a print stylesheet and a mobile stylesheet.

If you have any ideas for the site or thoughts on the new design, please drop me a line or add a comment below!