Robyn (and her redigned SitG) rock. Thanks for the preview, Tony. I love the new graphic.

The joint looks grand, man! Congrats! Robyn, uh, inspired my site design ;-)

Tony, what an awesome redesign! Looks fantastic. Now, see, if you'd had this only just a little earlier, Carrot Top wouldn't have been able to touch you. Whooosh!

Great design - now you're making me want to learn moveable type, as if I don't have enough time for the blogosphere! Who's that cool dude in the shades at the end of the posts?

Very pretty. I'm even tempted to go for a redesign on a MT platform, but that would just fly in the face of my prinicples: "Mal-Content First, Presentation Last." :)

Ahhhhh...shucks. Thank you SO much -- for everything! You're on the "people I'll owe for the rest of my life" list now. That's pretty 'lite company. And you've won my heart forever with that quote of the week!

A thing of beauty is a joy forever, as a wise man once said. Good work!

Um, is this an unveiling or a preview? I.e., do I post a raving "go see this NOW!", or am I sipping fine wine with the elite viewers until you open the doors to the masses?

Um, never mind. I got the clue. Musta been that vintage wi..oh. I don't drink. Ah, was that rum cake?

Long hours do pay off.Looks great.Less filling. Robyn's da bomb.

I love the new look!

The site looks great! Ooh, comments... you know not what you have unleashed, muahaha!

I just found this site via Andrea Harris's Ye Olde Blogge. Looks great. I'll be visiting again.

Gorgeous! Finally, visuals as finely honed as the great writing.
Congratulations to both Sekimori and you, Tony.

May I humbly suggest you bump your font size up a notch or two? Since the color isn't solid black, it's a little hard to read on my large screen. It's also good to make your comment box resizable, and to give it more than 480 X 480 pixels to start with.

Other than that, it looks good - I like the graphic, it's very automotive.

Of all the redesigns I've seen this year, this is, by no small margin, the best-looking.

Agreed, it's much more tasteful than Vodkaboy, Instafart, and Quicksilver, with the feel of fine old parchment paper and overhauled VWs.

Richard, the default color font on the main page should be black (it's set to #000000) -- not grey. It's only grey on the comments. And the comment box isn't set at 480x480 -- it's actually set at 515x480 using the default launch script that comes with MT. In IE for Windows and Mac it should automatically be resizable, but I just went in and added an extra tag so let me know if that doesn't clear up the problems for whatever browser you're using.

Tony, if you'd like a font change, just give me a yell and I'll go tweak it!

Beautiful. A bit slow on dial-up, but beautiful nonetheless.

I've updated my template with your new URL.

Congratulations from "Quicksilver," Tony. What a cool-looking new joint. Those Sekimori women - goddesses, I tell you. Goddesses!

Thanks Robyn, the resizable tag did the trick; I'm using IE 6.0 on W2K. My personal taste is to make the comments box taller than it is wide, so that all the buttons and stuff show at the bottom without scrolling, but once you've got some comments in it it doesn't matter.

Since I'm the only one that ever critiques anybody's blog for style, you understand that I have to pick nits wherever I find them, I hope.

Oh I don't mind at all, Richard! In fact, I really appreciate the suggestions. I try to code for everything, but well...let's just say Tony has seen my dark side and it's a very ugly thing... Browser 'standards' (or rather their lack thereof) tend to make a girl insane. ;-) And even the differences between IE 5.5, 6.0, and 5.1 on Mac are enough to cause a leap off the Skyway Bridge. I'm glad that resize-tweak did the trick for you -- thanks for letting me know!

Someone else had mentioned slow load times on dial-up and for that I do apologize. I've written Tony about it privately, but basically I designed a CSS and a non-CSS template and his favorite was the non-CSS one. As such, the image slices have to load before the actual text for most dial-up clients -- and this can cause just a bit of a hang-time as the browser chugs along. The main image is cut into 10 slices to try and make this as quick and painless as possible though!

Very attractive. One of the nicest new looks I've seen in a while.

MT rocks, huh?

It looks grrrrrrreat! (Robyn designed my site as well.) Isn't she swell?! :)

Far be it for me to comment on anybody's dark side.

My monitor at work must be pretty crappy, because I could have sworn the type was dark grey, but here it home it's obviously black. I'd bump the pixel count up by one, but the customer is always right.

I feel like one of those nerdy bearded producers who gets to accept an Academy Award only because of his hottie actress, who actually put butts in the seats in the first place. So, I'm glad you all have said such nice things, and I'd like to thank Robyn for being the talent behind my idea, the wind beneath my wings, the force beneath my insanely flipping and twisting combat Yoda...

You get my point. Yay Robyn.

I'm interested in what anyone might say about two aspects of the design that have cropped up here: 1) The CSS/non-CSS thing Robyn mentioned is that I preferred to have the left column extend all the way to the bottom, rather than stopping where its content ends. It just looks more symmetrical, and we all know that angry white males like symmetry. What do you guys think?

2) Font size. I like my small but intense Ninja-like font, but I wonder if a bump up is advisable. Thoughts?

My two columns even out at the bottom, though I sometimes wish they didn't. Go figure.

As for your font size, it looks fine to me.

Outstanding!