The designer inside me just won't give up. I have tried and tried to put down the Photoshop paint brush and embrace development only, but it just isn't going to happen. I care just as much about semantic HTML and css/designer stuff as I do about hard core Java development.

Some say it's easy to be a jack of all trades and a master of none. But I am naturally forced to slap that theory in the face and then kick it in the balls ;-)

With that said, enjoy the new layout and be ready for another in a few months.

So my current design is serving the purpose, but it seems a little "bland". I finally nailed down a design that is a little more frameworked. What I mean is, most of the time websites are designed to serve the content at hand. Which is fine in most cases, but I am looking for something more than just a "nice look" out of my designs. For some reason I can't get away from grey and other neutral colors. Maybe cause it's just the trend right now, but it seems to work and no matter what other colors I try in my designs, I always come back to grey. Also, the graphite pattern on the banner is kind of in style now (although it has been for the past 6 months), but by the time I code the css for this and integrate it into jroller - it will be time to do another design ?!?!

I need a new design badly (the little British car in the tunnel is getting old, quick), and after coding for x number of months, I feel like my design skillz are getting a little stale. So here are the candidates for my new look.

Layout #1

Layout #2