How D'Ya Like the New Blog Design? Please Comment!

It's only been up about an hour, as of writing (9:30 PM EST on Wednesday, 17 June), and there are still some details to be worked out, because my friend finished his work for the day. Notably, I'll have a neat rotating book widget on the sidebar that will link to my book page, for all sales and further inquiry about my books.

I wanna hear lots of positive comments, because I am sick to death of complaints about my old blog design (that was done for free about four years ago). Now, I think I am right up to speed, with a classy, very artsy, "old-fashioned" look. And I still have the content that I've always emphasized: the best of both worlds. So let's hear it for the new design, and George and Ashley Weis, over at Tekeme Studios (BIG APPLAUSE!). I hope many of you will visit their site and get on-board with the cutting-edge of Blogger design today. George has written a kind post on his separate blog about this new design, too.

It was a pleasure working directly with George, and many of my suggestions were incorporated (for example, I suggested the very top of the design, and the burnt-orange fancy lines underneath the posts (they were light blue, originally). The three high-contrast b&w photos at the top were my ideas, etc.

One item I should mention is that Haloscan comments are no more. Now I'll have comments through Blogger, like most Blogspot blogs do. That's an improvement. Old Haloscan comboxes can still be accessed, though, by following links on my Topical Index Pages, that look like this: "(+ Discussion)". So, for example, to get to the combox for the "Calvin's Rejection of St. Ignatius" post, you have to go to the "Calvin and Calvinism" topical index page, find the link to this paper, and follow the discussion link to Haloscan. None of that is lost as long as I made a link to it.