It was this post by Paul Stamatiou that inspired me to redesign my site. I had actually been working on it for a while, but I liked his new design so much that inspired me to create one of my own. If you compare our two sites you'll notice how mine was influenced by his. Like Paul I was also inspired by the following . . . Cameron Olthuis, 43folders, Vague Dream, and 37signals.

For the first time I have completely customized just about everything in the site design, and you probably can not even tell by the layout that I'm using dasblog as my underlying blogging engine. ericappel.net now has a much clearer focus and purpose. It highlights the things in my tech and development life that are important to me, as well as my photography.

In the top right corner of the site you will see the latest five photos from my "Highlights" set on flickr. I decided to move the search box to the archives page, so if you are looking for a certain post, that will be your best bet. In the future I would like to create a custom projects page to highlight my projects in a more structured way. Future enhancements may also include a cleaner looking archives page, a site dashboard, and a redesigned side nav bar with additional content.