Woah, yeah, new site design. I’ve been griping about the old design for some time and finally sat myself down and set a deadline to get a new design out. The old layout punished me for posting too often or for posts that were short, which lead me to put off posting until I had a lot to talk about, which lead to neglect (well that and my general laziness). It was good-looking, but didn't work so well as a blog. Live and learn.
Of course with a new design comes a new back-end. This one is written on the PHP framework I've spent the past year falling in love with: Code Igniter. Up until a week ago I going to use Chyrp but I found it’s documentation severely lacking. There was no way I’d complete the update to the new design by my self-imposed deadline of labor day.
With this new design I’ve switched to using MobileMe for my photo gallery. The interface is pretty slick and it’s a lot easier to manage since it’s integrated with iPhoto. The latest addition to my gallery will always appear on the front-page. Along with photo gallery updates I've tied my Google shared items feed into the sidebar on the front-page. Odds are the links I share will be pretty interesting, so check them out.
I decided, as many others have, not to go out of my way to support IE6. It’s six years old now and time for that thorn in every web-developer’s side to die. This means if you’re viewing this site in IE6 the header will look a bit messed up since it doesn’t support transparent PNGs properly. Update your browser and the header will look much better.
The new design, Canvas, is still a work in progress and I’ll be tweaking things over the next month or so, but I’d say this is pretty close to what I have in mind overall. Pardon the dust.
#1. Ashley Morgan said:
Congratulations on getting listed on CSS Mania. Nice design, the canvas background really suits the blog.
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