I did a big update to the theme over the last couple of days to get away from the very clean white look I’ve used for the last little while. The underlying theme is the same – Orman Clark’s very excellent Classica theme, with some bigtime modifications to CSS and a few tweaks to the code as well.

I’ve moved to a darker background with some new CSS3 shadows. The footer is more pronounced, with a dark background and light letters. I think overall the blog stands out a bit more which I like. Also, the removal of the sidebar clutter (tweets, runs) makes things a little neater on the pages. I also went edge-to-edge on the homepage slider and added a grey bar behind the tag line.

As with all themes, the devil is in the details. I’ve been tweaking here and there to make sure the baselines for different text elements lineup and to fix up some minor spacing issues here and there.

Hope you like it.