perfidy

Welcome to the newest version of The Ministry of Minor Perfidy. This is the fourth incarnation since Perfidy popped, blooded and squalling, into the blogosphere in the Spring of 2003. The first effort was a rudimentary effort built on the Expression Engine platform. Our first redesign stayed with EE, and because we didn't want to go through the effort to import everything into WordPress for #3, it still exists, and can be viewed here.  I still kinda like that one.  The penultimate version saw a move to the WordPress platform, and a precipitous and ill-considered dive into an experimental format.  As of today, it sleeps with the fishes.

So here we are with the new hotness.  Or so we hope.  The theme for your present-day perfidy is a pared-down, simple design that in some respects harkens back to our first attempts at web design.  But this time, we know a lot more about html, css, php and other acronyms.

The starting point for Perfidy's layout was inspired by Oulipo, an elegant theme created by talented web desinger Andrea Mignolo.  After cutting out the few bits we didn't need, we made some changes: like the post meta thingy that hangs to the left of the posts and a new format for the archive pages.  We brought in the category icons that have been a tradition with Perfidy since v2.0.  We also brought over the link colors we've used since we started.  Other colors were removed - except for the links, the new theme is completely monochrome.  The fonts are also different.  The body text is Georgia; titles and incidental text are set in Hoefler Text or Constantia, depending on what you're using to look at us.

So look around, see what's different.  You will appreciate being able to scroll through all the content, rather than just the two most recent posts.  Email us on the contact page.  Click the magnifying glass in the top left corner to search.  Leave a comment and subscribe for notifications on that comment thread.