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When your charge for the day is to dismantle the Christmas tree and put away the decorations (yes, we’ve kept it up this long; yes, it’s been nice & festive in here while grey february rages on outside our windows; yes, we’re lazy;) but what you really want to do is noodle around your websites and server and neaten up a bit, what do you do? Why noodle, of course! And redesign while you’re at it!

So, another redesign here at etc. hq. The theme is Ambiru, a brand new theme from Phu Ly over at If..Else. I wasn’t ready to abandon the single-column layout but have been despairing a bit lately at the relatively low number of single-column options available out there in the WordPress theme world, until I stumbled upon Phu’s “theme a day” feature this morning (I installed another one of Phu’s lovely designs on my other blog, too).

For me, the main draw of this theme is the header image, love a decent amount of headspace devoted to a striking image. The image above is one of my pictures from Cuba (here’s the unadulterated version), this cold, grey month brought on the sudden need for a bright, warm image. I went a bit dizzy in Photoshop this morning, cropping and saturating like crazy, adding noise, and finally a lens flare. I had no idea that this was the look I was going for until I got here.

Also, a new tagline, for which you can thank a recent Bowie spell.

Let me know if any of this is broken or just plain horrible on your monitors, would you? I know you will, you’re all so good like that.