Anyone who visits my blog on a regular basis will have noticed a few changes to it this week. While it wont win any awards I think its an improvement.
For anyone interested here are a few of the changes made.
Being slightly colour blind I will never be a designer but even I could tell that the old colours were not too easy on the eyes. So to improve things I added a nice image of a landmark from home and changed all the red bars to a more neutral blue.
This is something I have been planning a very long time. Finally the forms have some style rules.
The more observant will notice that the site footer is no longer a simple strip of blue. It is now a clickable accordian. For anyone with javascript disabled it fails over to a css hover effect. Go on try it.
This is probably the biggest change for end users. If you visit the website now from a mobile device you now get a dedicated jQueryMobile layout. Better late than never :-)
While I am not currently using it, I did update the main layout template to the html5 doctype. In the future I plan to introduce more html5 into my code.
This wont be visible to end users but my more technical visitors will appreciate this. This site now runs on Sean Corfields FW1.
During this change I rewrote nearly every single major section to bring my code up to current standards including. All my spaghetti code has been replaced with MVC separation layers and the procedural methodologies I employed have been replaced with Object Orientated methodologies.
As with all websites there is always more to do. My future plans for this site include:
So here it is. I hope everyone likes the new look.