Dartblog

It is to slim down, of course. As you no doubt notice, Dartblog has been redesigned to fill a thin column of fixed width rather than the entire width of your monitor. This was a decision reached only after years-long consultations with leading experts such as the Sierra Club and the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development. The consensus? Thinner is better. And so Dartblog returns, really, to its roots. When the site first began, it took up only a sliver of screen. When the Internet’s most popular blogs began to go ‘variable-width,’ so that their width increased commensurate with the width of one’s computer monitor, I too converted Darblog to variable width.

Then, a few days ago, I realized: I’m not running a magazine here. There isn’t all that much content on one man’s blog. Far from requiring a wide format, it is more akin to a single column. A thin fixed-width site presents several advantages. For one, I can control formatting so that everything appears to be nice and centered — when I post a video, for example, it won’t be stuck to the left side of the screen while the text flows nine inches to the right. The text will never, in fact, flow nine inches to the right. It is exceedingly difficult to read long horizontal stretches of text. We — all of us — are used to reading short lines which are many in number. Folks with high-resolution Apple computers might see one very substantive post as taking up only five very long lines or so. It just is not pleasurable to read.

And with this new format, I can finally set the text fully justified, which is how God intended it.

Thus, the new format. I hope you, O constant reader, like it. If it troubles you, remember: You can always resize your browser window.