19 Apr 2010
Whoa, it has been ALL GO on the webdev front. The homepage is done and all nifted up, though there's room for more work. The blog is looking all nice right down to the blockquote styling, the return of "random thoughts" and an awesomely compact archive navigation which leaves no need for jquery shenanigans! I'll have to use them elsewhere instead. The info page done with an overly detailed site history that nobody in their right mind would be even vaguely interested in, the 404 apology page is done and pointed at, the only big pieces missing are the CV and the "past work" page. The former's going to take a while to get up to scratch and I've been collecting screenies for the latter.
Other things I'd like to add:
- Navigational "here" state that also turns off the link, with a js/css combo.
- Dynamically swap out the intro text on the front page for nifty hints on mousing over other parts of the page.
- Pull out date of last blog post somehow?
- Get that and other hover-behaviour to fade in and out.
- Draw in more tweets and get the area to scroll down on hover
- Homepage details: border along the top etc.
- Poster-ised photo of myself on the info page.
- Both "work" and "cv" will probably featuring a nested-list nav on left and entries on left structure.
- Hide "commenting not allowed" copy from single-post blog pages.
- Snaz up the 404 somehow. Giant punctuation?
- Style the (horrible) blogsearch section. For some reason ExpressionEngine makes it a separate, table-ridden subsite. Ugh.
- Contact details? Though I don't want a spammable link and email forms always feel crude...
- Suddenly become a genius at typography and refine all the fonts throughout.