Pardon my dust
Welcome to the foundation of my updated Web site! I'll be adding the content from the old design bit by bit, and a whole lot of new stuff too!
My old site layout was slick but brittle. It used a fixed 640×480 container, which severely limited how much text I could type in the exhibit content box and scaled awfully on high-DPI and mobile displays. My use of <fr> units made it difficult to add new site elements—adding a new one would squish all the other boxes to fit the 4:3 aspect ratio. Getting the exhibit grid to look just right required me to make my own static generation script + JS script + no-JS fallback script, and even then the image grid on the exhibit pages still had all that ugly whitespace.
All of these constraints ended up having more of an effect on my site's tone than I wanted. I had to go for a "terse, mysterious" feel when that doesn't match the energy I want to bring to the Web at all.
This new site layout is more traditional but a lot more flexible. I can type paragraphs to my heart's content—just look at how much space I'm filling up with all this rambling! It's also allowed me to implement elements that are long overdue, like the webring footer. The layout scales wonderfully on displays of all shapes and sizes. I'll still be using JS for fun gimmicks like the Internet Time clock, but the core site elements are good old HTML+CSS. And check out that image embedded inline with the content!
If you're interested in hopping in a time machine, check out 2025.pixelguin.net for a glance at the first release of my Web site (back when it was still pixelguin.xyz), or 2026.pixelguin.net for the last version with the old design.