Time is a two sided thing, especially with web sites. It can make you more popular and mature, but it can also make your looks age. So here it is, the first iteration of the visual refresh!

If you haven't noticed anything and you're still seeing the old theme, go to your profile and change your default theme accordingly. The visual refresh is not complete yet, just as the previous theme it will be polished over time. At the moment you're seeing the initial stage which is ready for the public. The first priority right now is to clean up the php and css code.

Besides a visual refresh there have been other changes. Most importantly first: content. As I said before this web site stopped blogging on Opera, more specifically Opera news. Recent experiments have shown that blogs about Opera, and competitive browsers such as Firefox and Safari, have gained increasingly more hits as well as comments. That's a good thing!

The visual refresh also comes with some added value. Remember those draggable text fields that Safari supports? Well everyone who uses Opera or Firefox can now drag the text fields on Avencius as well, though only vertically. As this theme uses open source material, it can be acquired by request.

Although you may have been hoping for something totally new right now, that's not going to happen soon. Life changes, and so do ideas. For the time being the idea is to use my personal web site for the experimental topics, while this domain will be used for (biased?) blogs about web browsers, offering an independent view on every one of them. The idea of going for articles with depth instead of news articles is thanks to the free Dutch news paper called De Pers, which showed me another way of bringing people up to date and in for debate.

I hope you all like it, the visual refresh, as well as the hopefully richer content. As always, thanks for visiting my site!