10.09.2008

Rainbow Gel

See? I told you I'd get around to it. So the new look is finally done and implemented. Most things should work. I'll run over the changes and what I still need to finish off. Firstly; all the entries are here. I - ahem - discovered that you can export and import MovableType blogs so it was just a case of exporting from one and importing to the other. I still had to hand edit some changes, fix some encoding and what have you, but they're there at least.

I'm mid-way through a re-arrangement of the preview and download folders. This means that probably some will 404 for you if you try to grab older pieces of work before I'm done. Once I've moved them all, I'm going to do retroactive posts of older pieces of work, properly labeled and such so that if you want to see them you can just hit the Goodies category to the right.

I've tried to make the site much simpler. There's just two categories: Personal, which I use for ranting, personal issues and general stuff, and Goodies for some of the nice released goodies. Sometimes an entry is both. The Goodies category page is a makeshift release page because I hate micromanaging them. There's also tags, in the future I'll work on letting you search by tag in order to go to similar posts.

One of the fundamental things is the lack of comments now. It's rare that I feel a post of mine warrants them (the payware themes issue is one of the obvious exceptions). They're a fucking pain to work out how I want displayed and I hate forms, etcetera. It's not that I don't want opinions or even people to tell me a post is bullshit and wrong - feel free to email me such stuff. I'm sure I'll work out something nicer than what I was going to rush with it.

Anyway I've gone back to June's entries and fixed them to match the style. I'll be working on updating them and the preview images to fit the new look. Enjoy!