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GRUBYet another theme change, with my intention to moving towards minimalism. Here is the gist of this theme change:
~ I wanted to move to really minimal design. I am tired of information clobbering up pages. Web 2.0 is great and all, but I am almost annoyed these days whenever I visit websites to see them so full of information and blocks all around. I want to go back to old days, where the page is simple, fast to load and clean. I think I am ready to look beyond today’s web designs.
~ The theme change itself isn’t that dramatic. I just modified my old theme a bit and made it a 1 post theme only. Now, this is as bare minimum as I want to keep (Notice, there is still a category drop down. I am in half a mind that to pull it too!).
~ I am done with Adsense / Textlink or any other forms of advertising. I have reached a stage in my life where I don’t want Google or any other company to dictate how I put my information on which page. This is my webpage, and I will put stuff the way I deem fit. I am done with page ranks, SEO, adsense and all that jazz. If anything I will use my other web playgrounds to test with those technologies. This website is purely going to by personal web stop.
~ Care for the user. I am not a popular blogger and nobody realistically goes back to read my archives. I have no desire in knowing how many people follow me anymore, nor do I care about which areas of my website do they click. All things said and done, majority of my users read only latest posts, which is what they will get on front page from now on. My regular and faithful readers who do wish to go back in time will definitely know how to do it 
~ Readying for a photoblog. Eventually I want this theme to extend itself as a photoblog + blog framework. Hence the desire to move towards single post / nothing else look.
This theme may change over a period of time in the next few weeks. For now, the basic layout of this will remain. Lets see how far in minimalism can I get without just vanishing content of my web page hehe!
Cool. Ultra minimalism. This would work perfectly for a photoblog.
But I’ve couple of minor quibbles:
Clicking on the Browse on the menubar reveals the clutter behind-the-clean look (sorta like everything dumped in a cupboard before banging it shut as mom comes in your room). It would help if you drastically reduce the number of categories and use tags to categorize posts further if you want to. You may or may not choose to display a separate tag cloud page.
Even if you don’t provide a link to your Archives, a Search box is definitely needed and can exist as an empty textbox in tune with your minimalist look (see top left at ckunte.com)
@Patrix: Thanks for stopping by! Yep, I am already looking to reduce the Browse categories clutter. I want to code category cloud instead and that too of the highest posted articles. Yes, I have been working on a search box - should be able to put it somewhere soon!
Thanks for the feedback!