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
search1 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. 
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I hope you enjoy some of the changes.
- You actually can perform a search; there just isn’t any interface for queries yet. ↩