Rebirth! …Kind of.

In theory, the rollover to the new design could have gone worse. In theory. I got the initial design up, but then found out that Wordpress has some limitations in where you can write pages to. I can’t say that Wordpress is fully capable as a true content management system. Only the bare bones functionality of the site is up, and parts of it look as though I haven’t been doing this for the past 8 years (wow, a third of my entire life), but I’ll be working on it off and on over the next couple days, so check back often. And thanks for the comments and suggestions that have already come in.

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  1. Phil
    21 June 2005 at 12:47 PM

    Using Epiphany 1.6.1 on Ubuntu Linux

    Nice job with this redesign. I know a lot of things are still in progress, but here are some thoughts:

    * Input fields for mail and uri are too small
    * Can you say ‘copyright 2004 – 2005 Intelligent Design’ if Intelligent Design has only existed in 2005? Just a thought.
    * Flash as text should be optional. The Linux flash plugin is a halfhearted POS. If you mouseover the flash, it takes control of the keyboard, and no keyboard shortcuts work. I know, I know, install flashblock, but that only works in Firefox, and I don’t want to have to reinstall extensions over the four machines I use regularly. I’m thinking if you could right-click on the flash and choose an option, it could set a cookie that would never serve up flash content? (I don’t know enough about flash to say if that’s possible….) Whatever; it’s not a huge deal, but if you’re going to be tweaking your site anyway….
    * Might want to hide the ‘Admin’ link.

  2. Anonymous
    21 June 2005 at 04:06 PM

    Using Safari 412 on Mac OS X

    One other comment is that I’m not a big fan of ‘click here to read more’ on the front page. It might be justifiable in the cases of extremely long blog entries, but not normally. For me, I always click read more; I think people will want the whole entry more often than not.

    If you really want to keep things short on the front page, consider using Javascript to hide the rest of the comment until it gets clicked. That way people don’t have to load a new page, but you have the simpler, less cluttered splash page.

    Also, you should consider using Textile to style your comments. http://textism.com/tools/textile/ It allows much more flexibility without opening up to the dangers of allowing HTML. It’s what Typo uses, and I like it a lot. I’m sure there’s a PHP module to get you that functionality.

  3. Tim
    22 June 2005 at 03:26 PM

    Using Safari 412 on Mac OS X

    Thanks for the comments, Phil. I’ve been slowly implementing some of your suggestions, as you can see. I really miss the Flash text though…maybe I’ll just drop support for Linux. Heh.

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