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title: "New year, new blog design"
date: 2023-01-02T09:00:00
slug: new-year-new-blog-design

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It’s time for a new website layout. My previous one sort of evolved over a year of messing around and not quite finding something I was happy with. I didn’t really feel like it represented *me*.

I’ve always been a fan of ZX Spectrums, despite them coming a bit before my time. I picked up a +3A in a charity shop once, and it’s one of my favourite things to occasionally boot up.

So what better than to model my site on that classic design? I got to do some nice CSS gradients for the rainbow bar, and took the opportunity to strip some of the fluff out of my site.

![Screenshot of the website home page. Shows the title \"LewisDale.dev\" and a menu with Home, Blog, and Microblog options.](./src/images/screenshot-2023-01-02-at-02.09.12-1024x606.png)

I’ve reduced the website to two components for now: the blog, and the microblog. There’ll be some new fluff added in no time, I’m sure, but it was getting a bit much to manage.