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I apologize for the mess.

December 30th, 2007

Tired of Kubrick, I decided to jump to my own design a little bit early. The new theme isn’t quite done, and you’ll notice this in two ways:

A lot of features are missing. Most prominently, this includes ~~search~~¹ and comments (both reading and submitting). Update: Search is fully back.
Most pages are missing. Right now, only the legal page is there. There’s no “about”, which used to be a somewhat comprehensive (though incomplete) section, nor “contact”.
Some of the layout is inconsistent. This particularly affects older articles. If you spot an article whose layout doesn’t appear to make sense (presumably, it used CSS rules that I didn’t transfer over to the new theme), let me know. For current articles, consider upgrading your browser.

Improvements – visual refresh aside – include the addition of tags (I will deprecate most categories, leaving only a handful), better handling of images (they scale to higher quality) and what I hope will be generally regarded as a less-in-your-face layout.

The site makes extensive use of CSS 3 properties, which means it won’t display quite as nicely on older browsers, but I have tried wherever possible to make things degrade nicely. Several browsers won’t support the multi-column layout, but they should degrade nicely to a single column of text. Most won’t do drop shadows underneath some of the text and images, but the site will look fine without them.

I also try to take advantage of some HTML 5 additions, such as the <header> and <footer> elements. (I’ll probably also try and let MYSTlore take advantage of HTML 5’s <video> element.) The site isn’t entirely valid at this point, but I’m getting there.

Finally, there will be a series of tabs on the top, as I showed a while ago.

Now, I realize that using CSS 3 and HTML 5 features this early makes navigating my little place on the Web ever-so-slightly less enjoyable on a regular browser, but when it comes to technology, I’ve always been the kind of guy to jump on bandwagons. (I can’t help it. )

I hope you enjoy some of the changes.

You actually can perform a search; there just isn’t any interface for queries yet. ↩

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