Potential Website Redesign

I’ve been toying with the idea of developing a round design/theme for my website. I would continue to use the same gallery generator, and I sincerely am enjoying my current blog design, so I have no desire to alter it.

In the meantime, I fussed around with Adobe Photoshop today, and I came up with the following image.

The round space would handle any page content, and should the content be larger than that space (let’s face it, most of it will be), it should expand vertically, making the visible space an oval instead of a circle.

I think this looks pretty crisp, yet interesting. I have a couple tweaks in mind, but that’s the basic layout. Ajax might be fun instead of a static navigation bar.

In the meantime, I know how to use .css, and edit .php files/databases, but I have no idea how to *make* a .php page. I think it’s time to do a little bit of research. Similarly, if I want an animated image for the entry page of my website, I might need to move over to flash, instead of having the janky .gif animations running (I have received compliments on the animation, but I would really like to clean the image/animation up).

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