Posts Tagged ‘blog’

New Blog Design!

You have probably already noticed a change unless you’re reading this by RSS, but Steven Wiggins has been working tirelessly on weekends to get this blog redesign done! Yay!!! The coolest feature is probably that there are actually two new designs, one for night and one for day, which will change around 6 or 7 in the morning and at night Eastern time. If you want to see the other design, click the cloud above the D in Pladd (day view), or the yellow star in the top right of the page (night view). Exciting times!!

The stuff that used to be in the sidebar has either 1) been deemed unnecessary like “recent comments” or 2) been moved to the Archive page, where you can browse by date or category. I’ve cleaned up the categories a little bit too. Natch you can always search with the search bar or click on tags like always, since I know everyone loves to read vintage Plaid Pladd.

Also, if you highlight something on the page, it’s PINK!!! This is not something I asked for so it was even MORE amazing when I discovered it.

Now I have to take Steven out for celebratory fancy chocolate! It’s important to reward your in-house developer/designer/tech support at frequent intervals.

So far I’m thinking a phalanx of animated gifs, and giving everyone free unicorns

The Internet is Steven’s job, but it’s also what he does for fun. Usually when he talks about it all I hear is either:

“GRUMBLE GRUMBLE GRUMBLE backwards compatible GRUMBLE GRUMBLE IE IS THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE GRUMBLE GRUMBLE why am I the only one in the world who can spell GRUMBLE GRUMBLE code.”

or, the slightly more upbeat:

“GUESS WHAT??? {white noise} jquery {white noise} website {white noise} streamline {white noise} ostriches.”

Because comprehension AND empathy combined take too much energy and I am a weary grad student. I usually settle for apologizing for the Internet and/or humanity or saying “Yay! Good job! Can I have a sandwich?” A good mood is the secret to superior Steven Sandwich Making.

However, earlier this week I was able to comprehend a whole sentence, without caps lock or curly brackets. It was something like “I am reconfiguring like crazy! Major updates for your blog are coming! Tell me what you want it to do–literally, anything!–and I will make it do that!”

LITERALLY, ANYTHING, you guys!1

The problem is, when offered LITERALLY ANYTHING there is too much to choose from and I can’t even decide what to demand first. So you should totes help me think of LITERALLY ANYTHING that we can demand Steven make my blog do.

He is also going to change the design because this look is SO a year and a half ago.


1 So these may or may not have been his exact words, but I learned from my stint as Wiess Secretary that people rarely remember their exact words, so you can claim pretty much anything if you are willingly to claim it strongly enough. Or if it’s funny.

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