Tuesday, July 7, 2009
A new template system activated
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 
After a number of after-the-fact template tweaks being pushed online, the main template here has been upgraded. Nothing too fancy, and that's the point. I have a version that I painstakingly developed over a month at night that is very, very cool and "designy" -- but it failed in it's purpose outside looking cool.
It didn't deliver information in a easily digestible way. It had scripts to place my last 20 twits in a sidebar (not Flash but rather Javascript). Who cares? If you were interested in my tweets, you'd be following me anyway. I printed previous posts, previous comments, a calendar of posts, all with a lot of animation and AJAX goodness.
I removed the sidebar altogether. Most everyone with a blog has one, and they seem to look alike in some respects. Since I am posting some Objective-C code from time to time, the extra width is going to really help since the language and methods are so incredibly verbose.
Because of the extra width, I realize that sometimes that's too wide for the eye to follow when reading a text-heavy post. So I am using CSS3 for columned information... two and three columns. I try to keep the posts short enough to avoid having to scroll up and down in order to read a columned post.
The search still needs tweaked a bit, and the blog doesn't match the rest of the site, but for now it works, it's a lot cleaner, and it's made me rethink what this whole domain is going to evolve into. Enjoy.
It didn't deliver information in a easily digestible way. It had scripts to place my last 20 twits in a sidebar (not Flash but rather Javascript). Who cares? If you were interested in my tweets, you'd be following me anyway. I printed previous posts, previous comments, a calendar of posts, all with a lot of animation and AJAX goodness.
I removed the sidebar altogether. Most everyone with a blog has one, and they seem to look alike in some respects. Since I am posting some Objective-C code from time to time, the extra width is going to really help since the language and methods are so incredibly verbose.
Because of the extra width, I realize that sometimes that's too wide for the eye to follow when reading a text-heavy post. So I am using CSS3 for columned information... two and three columns. I try to keep the posts short enough to avoid having to scroll up and down in order to read a columned post.
The search still needs tweaked a bit, and the blog doesn't match the rest of the site, but for now it works, it's a lot cleaner, and it's made me rethink what this whole domain is going to evolve into. Enjoy.
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