Yes, I know I've been lax updating. I don't know how other blogs do it--make the mudane even mildly interesting. And I've been too busy at work to hit the forums and find any eccelectica to post, so things have been slow, blog-wise.

But there is another reason. After . .. oh, about three years I've finally begun to revamp my V for Vendetta Shrine. I tried it back in the Spring and the design went nowhere. About a week ago I fed-up with the piece-of-shit design the site currently has (to think that was once the height of my design skills--shudder) and with a little playing around I've come up with a design that I like. I've been playing around with it over the last few evenings, and I've spent the majority of the day slicing-and-dicing the pictures to assemble in HTML.

I'm not generally fond of showing off works-in-process. Which is probably a lie, as I've showed this design to Mike and Sean already, but I digress; the point is, if you want to know what's been keeping me busy lately, here's your answer:

The Revamped V for Vendetta Shrine

As you can see, it's still got a ways to go. The biggest challenge (not including the horror-show that was my table-layout until Zav came to my rescue--and I'm doing this for a living!!) will be the multiple-rollover trick I've got lined up. For a change of pace, the navigation bar will remain static, but the image in the right-hand corner will change, as well as the lines connecting the picture to the appropriate section on the navbar. It'll take a lot of work to get right, but once that's done, it'll look quite sweet.

Of course, there's still the logo to design. I was originally planning on making the content all centered, but I rather like the right-justification I have now, so I make keep that. And with that format it actually makes the logo I have in mind work more effectively, but will see.

Still, once the design is complete, then the really hard part starts. I'll have to write several new sections--a new analysis essay, the whole movie section, formatting a rambling, multi-e-mail correspondence into a coherent narrative; and don't even get me started on what I plan to do for the timeline-- there won't be a single page on that site that won't be changed in some way; I'm all but starting from scratch. It's taken me three years to get this redesign going, it'll probably take me another three years to get the content up.

But at least it's a start.

It's 9:00 and I haven't had dinner yet. Fucking hell.