There’s a lot of crossed out links over there on the left. I’m sure it is with great sadness that you have clicked those links, only to find yourself back where you started.

Rest assured those links are getting populated. And they’re gonna be fancy.

In the meantime, those of you who have arrived looking for some information about me and what I can do, here’s my resume and some samples of my work (both are PDFs):

Thanks for your patience, and pardon our dust, and blah-blah-blah. Trust me: by the end of this month, this site will be resplendent.

Perhaps that’s the wrong note on which to kick off my new website, but it’s the truth. At least I have nowhere to go but up.

I committed to the May 1 Reboot. I didn’t get as far as I would like. The sidebar is a mess and the portfolio section isn’t done.

At least my new design is here for the world to see, though. I’ve only seen a few actual ugly babies in my life. Mostly, they’re adorable. Next thing you know, they’re adults. They grow up so fast, y’know.

I had originally titled this post “Fail.” But as I wrote, I realized that this isn’t a failure after all. Babies enter this world covered in goo and confused, so perhaps launching this new site in such an incomplete state really is the most appropriate way to go about it. Like most parents, I’m not sure what direction this is going to go in. My last blog went in directions I never dreamed of. The new ARLOdesign, just now opening its eyes, may not know everything it needs to know yet about navigating the world, but at least it has ten fingers and ten toes.

To the few of you who have stopped by to peer through the glass and see the little blue knit cap wrapped around this new site’s bald little head, welcome. It’s great to be alive.

(This site has so far only been tested in Safari and Firefox 2. I’ve glanced at it in IE7 and seems okay, but I’m pretty sure IE6 is a total mess. Don’t worry—it’s all on the list.)