I won’t remind you how capricious I am, especially with regards to this blog’s design.

I launched xenogere at the end of 2002 and posted my first entry in early 2003 (that two-month span consisted of setting it up and tinkering with it until I liked it).  Since that time, I’ve changed the core engine once and the design three times.

Now I’m going to change it a fourth time.  The design, I mean.

I really like this theme, like the look and feel of xenogere as it stands right now.

But I’m never happy with such things for long.

As with the previous theme changes, you can expect this one to be traumatic dramatic.  Things will be quite different, as has been the case with previous transitions of this nature.

However, I also feel this change is worthwhile.  The new theme is quite different yet superior in many ways.  I’ll admit it’s the difference I enjoy most about this process…

A great deal of my recent search for a new theme stems entirely from images: I want to expand the content area so I can increase the default image size.  Right now images can be no larger than 500×500 pixels.  For a great many reasons, I wish to utilize 600×600 pixels instead.

The new theme will allow me to do that by increasing the overall fixed width of the blog.  Sure, I could code those changes into this version, but what would be the fun in that?

So over the course of the next several days—precisely when I can’t say with certainty—xenogere will once again undergo a metamorphosis.

Hopefully this update won’t alarm or upset anyone.  At least not too much.