Lookie! It's a new Website!
I think my site may qualify as one of the single longest-running sites on the Internet to keep the same design. After five years (nearly exactly) of a nearly unchanged site, I've decided to do some work on this thing. There are a few reasons for that (one very large one being an excuse to sink my teeth more into Python and Django). So what you see before you is...dum dee dee...a completely new site, including a total recode from top to bottom (although some of the design is taken from a redesign I worked on last year that never actually saw light).
Anyway, so welcome to the new site. I hope everyone likes it. There are a few features from the previous ones that I haven't written yet (cookies to save comment author information is the first one everyone will notice; the lack of smilies will be the second), that I expect I'll roll out within the very near future. Still, I wanted to get this up so it didn't meet the fate of my last redesign. A few other things I expect I'll write sooner rather than later are the search function, a color rotation, and maybe a couple other things on the right hand sidebar.
And I'm sure I'll be spending some time fixing the bugs that you folks find. Still, hope everyone likes it!
Posted by Luke at 6:36 p.m.
Hot! Damn cool, sir. I like the rotating cats as well.
When it comes time to do search, you'll want to check out the "Q" object (see http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#complex-lookups-with-q-objects for details).
And RSS/Atom feeds are easy to do as well (adding a contrib app, defining a simple class and dropping in 2+ templates). Just so you know when I start ribbing you in a week or so. ;D
Posted by Daniel on 2008.04.12 at 10:30 p.m.
Good call on the RSS/Atom feeds now being missing. I completely forgot about that. :)
I think right now my to-do list on this site looks something like...
1. Restoring readership cookies so that names and e-mail addresses are saved. Retyping those constantly == annoying.
2. Restoring feeds
3. Restoring smilies. I like them. :)
4. Implementing a color rotation to replace the flag on the previous site. I have an idea in my head for how this is going to work, and I think it will be quite cool.
5. Tags. Beginning with this entry, tags are stored; they just don't do anything yet.
6. Some more stuff in the right sidebar. A little Twitter widget comes to mind.
7. Search. (Did anyone ever use that?)
Posted by Luke on 2008.04.12 at 11:21 p.m.
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