Most of the look and feel is finished. Now I’m rebuilding the templates in Movable Type from scratch, both to correct amateur errors I made the first time around and to take advantage of some of the new features in MT 3.1x. Tonight, I made big progress when I got a rickety version of the home page publishing properly.

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A long holiday like this one would have been the perfect time to get lots of work done on redesigning Subtraction.com, but I’ll be heading out of town this afternoon to spend Thanksgiving with Joy‘s family, then we’re off to the Jersey shore through Sunday afternoon. We’ll be taking advantage of the off-season quietude to relax and take Mister President onto the beach. So, the redesign goes on hold, at least for a few more days. Have a nice holiday!

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Lots of very, very generous people have written to me to say that we was robbed, that our entry in the redesign contest for the noted information architecture magazine Boxes and Arrows deserved better than to take the bronze in the final judging. I really appreciate all of those comments, so thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts. Thanks too, to Boxes and Arrows for holding the contest, and congratulations to the top prize winners. I can’t wait to see the finished product. By the way, if anybody out there is looking for a new design for their information architecture-focused online magazine, drop me an email. I’ve got one handy.

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Between balancing my personal life, my office responsibilities, my blogging schedule and my attempts to redesign Subtraction.com, something had to give. So I’ve decided to cut out the blog posts and concentrate instead on implementing a redesign that’s been brewing for months on my hard drive. These interim posts will keep you up to date, but they’ll be narrowly focused on the redesign’s progress only. With luck, I’ll be done in a few weeks