Well, I've finally finished my redesign. It took about a month and half of "here and there" work, but I think it paid off. I've tested it across Firefox and IE quite extensively so everything should pretty much be in order. I hope to review it in Safari over the next couple days.

Features

One of the features I've added is an AJAX search. I wanted to eliminate page reloads when a visitor wants to find something and also allow for an alternative way to navigate. For instance if you're searching for a blog post and don't find what you want through the results, all you have to do is type "blog" and voila! The blog page loads on the fly. This particular functionality works for all 4 primary pages (blog, lifestream, portfolio, contact) and I'll likely add to this feature overtime.

Another feature, if you want to call it that, is the ability to register. On all of my previous sites, I didn't enable it because I didn't see a real use for it. However, since building up a small following, I wanted to give return visitors the recognition they deserve. Overtime I hope to add to the functionality offered to all registered users as well.

Other than that, it's just some backend/admin changes that benefit me and a new design with added functionality, notably jQuery. As a part of this redesign project, I decided to learn it so I no longer have to write lengthy javascript's of my own. It's a fantastic javascript library and I'd recommend it to anyone.

All in all, I hope you like it. If you find an issue, PLEASE let me know so I can fix it ASAP. Enjoy.