We've had the same ole design for our bearable light website since 2002. I loved doing that design. All my previous designs were done completely with tables and spacer gifs (and if you're a graphic designer you know what I mean). A few years ago when I discovered that tables were going to become the backwards way of doing things I immersed myself in relearning stylesheets. (At the time, there were lots of web standards gurus railing against the losers still using tables--but lo, even till a year ago google.com was using tables! I thought it was all a bit funny--people take these things so seriously,)
Derek and I love the circus and especially the old Vaudevillian posters and advertisements. Sprinkled throughout the old site you'd see a hodge-podge of old fonts I dug up, clip art of Russian dancers, Irish jiggers, rabbis, pieces from Polish cyrk posters. I wanted it to look old and wordy, like a proclamation from an itinerant preacher. And Derek had one of those in his family--he ran an ice cream truck and traveled throughout the country giving away pencils that said, "Jesus loves you". Archie Butts was his name.)
