Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
I just wanted to post about a bunch of small changes made to the site recently, changes of the kind that would never be noticed unless they were pointed out.
- The code for the navigation bar at the top of the page has been updated. When writing the original code I never gave myself enought time to clean, document, or refactor the code properly so I had been meaning to get this done for a while now.
- I have just updated the blogging platform (wordpress). The 2.7 version of wordpress came out some time ago, and I had been reluctant to upgrade. The current version had been working for me very nicely, and I had no real motivation to upgrade because it seemed like a bit of a chore. I discovered recenlty a wordpress plugin called instantupgrade which basically does the job for you in a matter of seconds. It worked a treat, and though there will be no difference on the front end, I can now enjoy the benefits of the greatly improved back end user-interface. Very nice!
- I have also put up some of my layout drafts for both this blog and the Growth Graph website. See them at my Deviant Art Gallery.
Also, note that the navbar clicked over for the first time. Happy new year!
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
I finally worked out (hopefully) the intricacies of working with the blog back-end so that the navigation bar works intuitively in the non-post pages, bringing the theme to a fairly completed stage. I now have no reason not to use it, so here it is.
Notes on the design
I wanted to create a minimal design for the blog which used only typographical elements for the layout. So no images and no ‘boxing in’ the content.
I had a number of ideas, all centered around different ways of displaying information relevant to the author of the blog. Only one really stuck: Focusing attention on the chronology of the content
With the calendar navigation bar you can tell how long ago the an article was posted, and how consistantly the author posts, the frequency of posts in a given period of time, and how long the blog has been active/inactive, with just a few clicks. This might prove to be a good incentive to write more often 
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
I have hosted the first development version of my future blog design here.
It’s currently far from finished code wise, but the design only needs a few more typographical details and a bit of a cleanup. The Javascript navigation bar may require a refresh if you are on a slower connection, which is a problem I will have to fix in the next version.
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