New Look for the Blog

After years of putting off a move to Blogger's new templates, I've finally taken the leap and converted over. The advantages:

• Cleaner look on most HTML5 standard browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE9 (earlier versions of Internet Explorer will work fine, but it will look a bit clunkier)

• Better mobile support: it should automatically render correctly on Android, iPhone and iPad browsers

• A much nicer archive: if you scroll down a bit on the right side, you'll see a much more useful archive capability, with post titles of recent articles tagged by date

• Much better navigation: you can now scroll backwards and forwards through the blog using controls at the bottom of each page (I had to write this support myself in the old version and it only worked one way -- i.e., show the prior 10 posts)

Do you like the new look? Hate it? Let me know in the comments, where Biff Spackle will be fielding your responses with heartfelt missives.

And for those bloggers who also would like to upgrade to the new template structure -- but are afraid of losing all of their customizations -- I hope to write a quick guide to best practices at some point. It's not for the faint of heart, especially if you have a lot of custom CSS, HTML and Javascript.