Hokay, szo:

I’ve decided that while I like the mechanics of this theme, the layout rather sucks.  I want to change and move a lot of things, make other things more prominent, and prepare for still more things to come.

To this end, I’m temporarily reverting the theme to the BlogEngine default.  This will allow you to enjoy the full range of the site’s tools without being constantly interrupted by my theme updates.

I think I’m also going to lose that background image.  It’s pretty, but distracting.  Or perhaps wash it out at a smaller size or something, or less transparency in the content areas?  Dunno yet, but I don’t want finding out to be a major interruption to my readers, so I’m rolling back to defaults.

I also need some feedback.  I want to integrate more social networking tools and interconnections into the site, but I don’t want to turn it into another electronic billboard – putting ads up when I don’t directly control their content was tough enough to swallow.  I’ve found someone who’s working on a BlogEngine <-> Facebook commenting system, so that comments by FB users will appear on the “wall” of the page for this site, under its respective “note,” but it’s in early testing right now and I have a rather unconventional setup, so we’re working together in spare time to troubleshoot the thing.

I’ll also be rearranging some things.  I’ll probably nuke the NetworkedBlogs thing; as much as I appreciate it, it’s a redundant sub-set of the FB page mechanism and the primary reason I started using it – so my blog posts would appear on walls – is dead.  I’ll probably keep the Google thing, in a different format – nobody’s using the comment functionality anyway, but it’s a good thing to be on that network in general.

Blah blah blah.  Less talk more work.  Bai.