The black and orange scheme the blog has had since its last visual overhaul began feeling stale at least six months ago (can’t recall exactly when). Deciding to switch from Mandigo to something else – in this case, Tarski – was partly prompted by a Twitter conversation about pseudonyms, spawned by a MangaBlog post about making your site more user-friendly.

Yes, this is the same theme SDS uses but I’m continuing to rock a right sidebar and orange color scheme like always. The back-end tweaking is mostly done, although I managed to knock the alignment off-center while increasing the width (I’ll try to fix this ASAP – it looks fine on a 1024×768 setup) and the Google search box wasn’t working so I reverted to the standard search widget.

Oh, and for posterity’s sake, here is a screencap of the previous design. It lasted me over 17 months and hopefully I won’t get bored of this one because it took a while for me to find another theme that fit my tastes.