You may notice that the site looks different.

I could lie and say we had a redesign planned. But one of our favorite topics here at the Design Glut blog is the convoluted path that leads to greatness. So here’s the real story: I had a minor heart attack this weekend when I upgraded our site to a new version of Wordpress without thinking about the fact that upgrading would rewrite the old files.

As I clicked the upgrade link, I looked at their warning to backup the files before upgrading, and thought, “Why would I do that?”

So I accidentally deleted all of our site’s formatting. All of the content is still here, thank god. I figured I had two options – slog through hours of code recreating the look of the old site, or slog through a few more hours of code and make a new, better site that I could get really excited about designing.

Mending things is one of my least favorite activities, so I went for the second option. The goal is to build it back better – even easier to read and navigate than it was before. The new design is a heavily modified version of Allan Cole’s Neutica.

I know there are still issues that need to be fixed, so please bear with us. If you notice anything that looks weird, or that you just plain don’t like, or that you miss from the old version, please leave it in the comments. (For bugs please let me know what browser you’re using – it’s really only been optimized for Firefox so far.) All feedback will be much appreciated.