New blog design, new blog engine 2
I can never leave well enough alone. After my article blasting perfectionism, I guess it was inevitable that I should engage in a bout of it myself :-)
Not that the blog is perfect now, by any means.
Anyway, so I’ve moved over to a new blog engine, from Wordpress to Typo. Typo is written in Rails, and supports all the key features I want on my blog (e.g. Trackbacks). This means I can extend and reprogram it as I want, something I could not do with Wordpress and its mountains of spaghetti code. I’m planning to add a few cool features now that I’ve got full control over the code. Keep your eyes peeled for funky things like hit counts on posts, and other things you probably don’t care much about but which will make me feel happier :-)
As you can see, there’s also been a redesign! I have my friend Kelvin Koh to thank for the lovely new header, which not only looks 20 times cooler, but also only takes 19 kilobytes (as opposed to the humongous 75k of the previous one!). Here’s the old one one last time so we can all say good bye to it.
Looking forward to posting many more interesting articles for your reading pleasure.
Ciao,
Daniel
PS: If you love or hate the new design (or if you find anything broken anywhere), please don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments below!
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can you please link me to the icons you have used? they are beautiful :)
Hi sindhu,
I collected them all over the web, really… can’t remember where… I think I just googled for things like “digg reddit icons” or “badges” and clicked on a few dozen pages until I found ones that looked good enough.
Worth noting that trying to replace the digg/reddit ones is a bad idea, as it messes up with the vote vs submit… so I ended up only doing it for delicious, stumbleupon and google reader, though I have the icons for digg and reddit on my hard drive somewhere.