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July 2, 2004

in celebration of my 3rd blog anniversary (i refuse to call it my blogiversary because i dont want to sound like a twat) and my 2000th comment (rah!) i give you a new layout.

be glad you dont know how close i was to tagging this design with 'HAS VEGETABLE SALTY.' but then, thats what i get for brainstorming these things with my brother at three in the morning. maybe next layout (crosses fingers).

so whats new? whats different? whats improved? why does it cost more?
well, let me tell you.

  • on the surface, the first most obvious thing is that i am displaying the five recent thumbnails from my photolog. it gets my pictures to a wider audience, and i am proud of them. i promise pictures of my dog will be sporadic.
  • the next most obvious thing is the linklog, rhapsodic fragments, with comments and everything.
under the surface, though, is where it gets exciting.
  • everything is in php now. so if you linked to http://rhapsodic.org/index.html, please change it to point to http://rhapsodic.org/index.php or simply http://rhapsodic.org/.
  • its all floated pretty pretty around, and let me tell you, floats are the spawn of satan. seriously.
  • entries now have their own rooms; no more sharing and dividing living space. this also eliminates that stupid popup. and each comment has a permalink.
  • i made the permalinks to each entry the current IN way, with their titles and all. which means i have to remember to fill in the title field when making a post.... rrr. and it also means that past permalinks were far less than permanent, and are broken. oh well.
  • oh, and the about pages have been combined into one because who really wants to read pages of crap about me and my domain?
i did this whole thing over the span of a few days (not the design, but its implementation), so i could very well be missing something. if you notice anything that looks like the old layout or goes to a pretty stop-light-404, please let me know.

8 Comments

I love it. :)

love, Lynne on 2 July 2004

sweet. I like how you did the primary nav links.

love, nomad on 2 July 2004

I wasn't sure I was at the right site for a moment.

Snazz!

love, steveo on 2 July 2004

Simply Marvelous Darling !!

love, Dani on 2 July 2004

I like it! Great layout, cool colors, and the integrated comments are much, much better than comments in a popup.

One odd little thing -- in Firefox 0.9, whenever the pointer is over text or a form field, it disappears. Is this intentional?

love, maker on 2 July 2004

Never mind -- my browser's b0rked. It didn't take too long to notice that the pointer disappears on every other site, too. :)

love, maker on 2 July 2004

I love the new look - the purple is excellent.

love, authgeek on 2 July 2004

fahbulous dahhhling, simply fahbulous!

love, klondike.kate on 3 July 2004

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