Website Redesign

In my day job, I am a project manager for an organization dedicated to fighting childhood obesity. We recently launched a redesigned tool to help schools conduct a school health assessment. It was a challenging and fascinating project. The experience encouraged me to spend a couple of hours reskinning The Cookblog. The main points:

• Still powered by WordPress, The Cookblog now runs on a child theme of Twenty Fourteen that I’ve christened De Tocqueville.
• The color palette is still restrained, but with splashes of red (the typographer’s habitual second color, according to Bringhurst).
• In order to relieve the burden of creating scratch illustrations for each post, the Flickr Commons has helped lend the site a rustic decoration of engravings, etchings and woodcuts.
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Based on what everyone tells me, fatherhood should afford me long stretches of uninterrupted time during which to blog. I’m looking forward to it!