The pun is obvious, as in the photo mascara is streaming down Avary's face and his hair is conspicuously cropped short. He tries to keep the design simple but elegant, using tables for formatting. He opts for a dramatic chlorophyl green on black aesthetic and uses a freeware typeface for the title card . As an homage, to connect with the sites lineage, Roger choses to keep the design close to Jon Bonne's original Avary's Domain design. Roger eschews frames for his newly discovered love for tables.
Tables make the world simple, easy, and fast.
Roger had decided to recycle two Jon Bonne designs, a front map graphic and a navigation bar graphic . They somehow ground the site in its roots. Roger also realizes that for the most part, his site is best viewed on a Macintosh PowerMac with a fast modem and a 1024x768 monitor. It works fine on other system and software configurations, it's just optimized for my computer. The site loads quicker, makes it faster to revisit, and overall looks closer to how it was developed and intended to appear.