What's this then?
February 7, 5:57 p.m. | site
Thank god, I finally have a blog that doesn't look awful.
Important Stuff
I've decided to take a slightly different approach to navigation here. If you're trying to go to a different page, why should you have to scroll all the way up to get there? As far as usability goes, it doesn't make sense. I could've left a floating bar down on the bottom, but that kinda looks questionable and early-2000s-esque. Because I already had a sidebar (as most blogs do), I thought I'd fold navigation into that, as well as make the sidebar collapsable for easy reading. Let me know what you think! I'd love feedback on this whole thing.
Another big plus: TypePad Anti-Spam on comments. I am SO TIRED of the 40 spam comments I got in about a month. It's totally ridiculous. No more.
Within the next two weeks, the entire source for the site will be downloadable in a zip file. This isn't so much of an open source project as much as it is me just trying to be at least a little helpful, so the commenting is going to be kinda rubbish. But! It'll be downloadable, and because most of it was written when I first started learning Django, pretty easy to figure out.
Less Important Stuff
This is the same CMS I've been running, but updated to the latest version of Django and mod_wsgi instead of mod_python (because mod_python is old and gross). I've also changed some minor things that I didn't really understand when I first wrote this whole thing. Also, I've gone through and made the HTML way more semantically correct than it was before. That's one of the things that I've really picked up on after getting more into this whole website development thing: HTML tags should describe what's in them. To do anything else makes your markup REALLY unreadable.
One of the big not-so-apparent decisions I've made here is to use the HTML5 doctype for every page. I've been a huge proponent of HTML5 and CSS3, even if it just means adding the doctype to a site. Web developers need to make it known that supporting the HTML5 spec is no longer optional in browsers and that users should be able to experience the benefits of it as soon as possible. Though I'm not using anything HTML5 specific on the site yet, I think adding the doctype is a good step towards a wider adoption of this standard.
That's about it. Let me know your comments, concerns, thoughts in the hopefully spam-free comments!
