Kitsimons

Journal Feed

So, stopping short of an essay, here's what's new, or substantially changed in this version of kitsimons.com.

• Notes. Brief items of interest that don't warrant an article being written about them, but which I'd still like to mention. This alone should mean the site is updated much more frequently.
• New logo. Yay!
• Section layouts fit for purpose, as opposed to the one-size fits all approach previously adopted.
• Further to the layout point, the homepage is now a proper homepage i.e. a gateway to various parts of the site, rather than a duplicate of the journal section.
• Random phrase on the homepage, time specific. Shown in lovely Helvetica if you're lucky enough to have it installed (Arial if not). Who needs a banner image, eh?
• Search has been removed. Is it needed? I don't think so with the site as it stands.

Most of what's changed is cosmetic, though there are some under-the-hood tweaks. The most notable of these is to the way in which articles are displayed. I'm now making use of Textpattern's excerpt field, which helps with the layout and can be used in the RSS feed rather than an article in its entirety. Unfortunately this change required my going through every article I've posted and re-formatting each slightly to work within the new framework. Boy was that a laborious task. I hadn't realised quite how many articles I'd managed to post over the space of 18 months.

Right, enough rambling about another redesign. Back to the serious task of blogging... after I've had a beer...