I finally completed the new layout and published it. I made some radical changes in colors and site structure. Everything is reachable from the home page. While before it was possible to read the latest five posts, now only one post is fully readable, the previous four posts are included only as title , category and tags. There is an archive page for all posts, while before the archives were part of the home page. The photos and studies pages are gone (but external links to photos or studies are not broken), now there is a flickr badge for the photos and all the links to the studies also on the home page. The links page is just not there anymore, that was something needed before Delicious came along...

The change in structure has simplified the use of the site, giving access to all the posts, pictures and studies from one place. I also decided on a major color change. During the testing of the new layout I found,as I knew I would, some things that needed to be fixed and others that could be made nicer. I moved the comments link from the bottom of the post to the top and substituted the text with an icon (still courtesy of http://famfamfam.com), for example.

I had some problems with the flickr badge because it comes with a Javascript call incapsulated between <table> and <tr> tags which does not validate since a row (<tr>) is supposed to have cells (<td>) inside. The Javascript does that but it's unreadable by the validator. Apparently, though, if the Javascript call is just inside <div> tags it produces a series of images (<img>) wrapped in anchors (<a>) that link to the photo on flickr, no <td>s. It's then possible to apply CSS to the div and img. It's not the best solution but it validates.

All in all I'm pretty happy with the result, I felt that a change in appearance was long overdue and that, after using the site as it was for more then two years, the structure could be improved.