This might not interest my 33 RSS subscribers (more on that number later), or perhaps it's a reason to peek outside your RSS reader?

Because of bad weather I've spent most of the Easter indoor in front of the computer, which actually have been really nice. Finally I had time to finish off some personal projects I've planned for some time. One of them is upgrading this blog with a new theme.

The new theme is inspired by Alexander Groß great looking theme over at www.therightstuff.de.

As well as making the blog look cooler with a custom theme, the main focus have been on readability.

Some of the readability enhancements include brand new cool looking quotation boxes…

…a way better way to handle code snippets, using "scrolling" windows and CSS styled color highlighting

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace MyBlog
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Syntaxt coloring example
    /// </summary>
    public class MyClass
    {
        private string message = "This is my new theme...";

        public void Test()
        {
            Console.WriteLine(message);
        }
        
    }
}

…and a cleaner way to include downloads in the blog posts.

I've also changed the way the blog display comments. If you have a Gravatar it will be displayed next to your post and replies (comments) from me are colored different than comments from readers.
 
I've added a few Gadgets to the sidebar, such as my Facebook profile, my Gamer Card, my Flickr pictures, and a visitor map.

Another update to the blog is that my RSS feed is now handled by FeedBurner. This offers me better statistics on how many people actually subscribe to the blog. Currently I have 33 subscribers, which isn't too impressive… But at least I know someone is reading my posts.

So, what do you think of the new design? Any comments or suggestions are welcome!