Joel’s Improved Personal Website

· 11 Jan 2008 15:41 ·

New design principles have been learned, and changes introduced in the past six months:

• The header now reduces in size and importance after you move past the front page. Principle: don’t restate the obvious.
• Type is larger and now based on ems rather than pixels.
• Headings are now in p22 Mayflower using sIFR. If you don’t have Flash enabled you’ll see everything in Georgia, which is fine.
• All posts are now in one large pool, rather than having separate pools for poems, articles, and journal entries as before. Posts related to one another are strung together in ‘series’. This enables easy creation of new series, as opposed to the old system, where new structural and visual design solutions were needed every single time we wanted to add a new “type” of content.
• Poetry is now set in tables, centered on the page based on the longest line.
• The front page now displays the four most recent posts, instead of only the last most recent. I have moved towards shorter and shorter posts since I began writing online, and it makes less sense now to limit the front page in that way.

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