Do not realign the vertical and horizontal axes on your computer screen. Do not change your color settings. Do not go up to your rooftops to adjust your antenna. What you are seeing is the look of the future--or at least, the look of the future of the Far East Side Minyan.
Having opted not to change the blog name simply because I will now be reporting from Eastern Europe, not the Far East, I felt it was time to give the Far East Side Minyan a makeover. Oddly, I have wanted a red, white, and blue color scheme for some time; Taiwan's flag is red, white, and blue, as is America's, as is Russia's. The green template I had before I had chosen only because I saw it as vaguely "eastern". But as I will be in Europe, I felt it was time the blog had a more European feel to it. And yet, also a bit of an American flavor, since I am, after all, an American teaching American English.
Other features of the blog have changed as well. I have decided to have the archive set up in descending order by months, not ascending order by weeks. This is to make life easier for my mother, who periodically prints out my dispatches so that my computer-phobic grandmother can keep abreast of my adventures. Now my mother can more easily print out the blog and send it to my grandmother a month at a time, as is her wont.
I have also decided to change the fonts, in order to have a uniform Georgia font throughout. I wanted a classier, more consistent look for the blog, and I felt that having a single font would make The Far East Side Minyan easier to read and to print out.
Last but not least, I chose to reorganize the page layout in a way that uses more of the screen. I frankly never cared for the wide, unused verticle stripes in the old template. I hope that the new layout will make my dispatches easier to read, since less scrolling will be involved.
If anyone has any feedback or suggestions on the look of the blog, please let me know.
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