The urge to write again has struck, so I’m relaunching this website. I’ve made a great deal of changes to how the website looks and works, and I’m happy with the results. Everything is cleaner, simpler, and more focused. Returning visitors should reload this page to get the latest markup and stylesheets. If you’re interested in some of the changes, keep reading for details.
Design
The most apparent change to the website is, obviously, the new design. Lately I’ve been trying to follow a “less is more” philosophy, and that thinking has propagated through to the new layout. Less color and cleaner lines make the site, in my opinion, more visually appealing and, hopefully, easier to navigate.
Tags
I’ve dropped the use of categories to organize posts in favor of a tag-based approach. It’s a subtle distinction, but there’s a big difference. Categories have broad applicability, which can make it difficult to file entries under specific, well-defined topics. For example, a “Technology” category is almost meaningless when trying to located an archived article about Objective-C.
Tags, on the otherhand, take a more free-form, chaotic approach to organization. Instead of assigning a broad category, a few very specific keywords are applied. At first glance, it may seem counter-intuitive, but this technique actually makes it easier to file new articles and later retrieve them from the archives.
Spaces
As the Internet becomes more deeply ingrained into everyday life, our identities become prevalent online. I view this website as a place that represents myself to the networked world.
While this site is home to a journal of my public thoughts and ideas, I also keep information at other, external sites. For instance, I upload my photographs to Flickr and post bookmarks to del.icio.us. The Spaces section of this site contains links to the various profiles I maintain throughout the web.
That’s an overview of a few of the changes that have been made to this site. As I’ve stated, I am very pleased with the results, and will be further improving them going forward. I am also looking forward to writing future articles. Enjoy!
