Right. qwghlm.co.uk should look very different. I got sick of the turquoise green, so have some pale lavender instead.
As well as the colour and style revamp, the biggest change is that I’ve ported the blog from my own hand-coded system over to WordPress, the highly respectable state-of-the-art CMS software, which is fab and cool etc. There’s also post categories an incorporated linklog, better navigation, some extra things like what book I’m reading ATM, and lots of other things.
I’ve also heavily restructured the site, deleted some cruft, updated the content etc. There’s lots of redirects going on to help those who have bookmarked particular pages (like my RSS feed) or have come from out-of-date links so nothing should be too broken. But if it is, then let me know in the comments.
This site has been tested heavily in Firefox and IE6 on Windows, and much less so with Safari and Firefox on Mac. It might look shagged up in one or two places - if it is then, again, let me know. I’ve already noticed one major bug in IE which I’ll fix by morning. Fixed it - it was the Peekaboo bug.
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March 2nd, 2005 at 02:48:23
You have brontosaurs.
This is good.
Everything should have more iconographic brontosaurs.
Oh, yeah, and the rest of it looks pretty great too. Nice clean layout, both innocent and playful without being jejune, and a delightful finish of autumn fruits and dusky oak barrel tones. But after all that fussing with the colour charts… where’s the lime green, pink and beige combination I was hoping for?
March 2nd, 2005 at 10:35:42
I prefer the term ‘diplodoci’, myself.
March 2nd, 2005 at 11:55:38
I think the neck/body/tail ratio is more suggestive of Apatosaurus (née Brontosaurus) than Diplodocus. But hey ho.
(Please feel free to quote the Python sketch concerning Miss Anne Elk’s theory about the brontosaurus at this point.)
March 2nd, 2005 at 15:05:21
I wasn’t trying to be more palaeontologically correct, I just like the word ‘diplodoci’…to be honest I’m not sure what species they belong to…
March 2nd, 2005 at 15:12:21
“This is palaeontological correctness gone mad.”
March 4th, 2005 at 20:57:56
Well, it seems to work ok on Camino on the Mac (Camino uses the same engine as firefox, but makes use of more os/x features, which is nice). That wordpress thing looks cool, shame I have just done my own weblog thingumy from scratch. Bit corporate, though. Where is the subversive Chris I used to know?