farblog

by Malcolm Rowe

Restylin’

Those of you who actually go to this website directly rather than just reading the Atom feed — both of you — will likely notice that something’s changed today. Last night, I decided to do a from-scratch stylesheet rewrite, replacing the six-year-old design I had with something much simpler.

The main change this time round is that I’ve paid a lot more attention to the typography, and so (hopefully) the content is now a lot more readable than it was — something that I was never really happy with before. There’s still more to do (areas that I know are suboptimal: the archive page and images), but this seems like a reasonable place to start.

While this is mostly a CSS change, I did also take the opportunity to simplify some of the HTML, and to remove some of the ‘cute’ — but ultimately useless — features such as the ‘Posted 5 days ago’ humanised timestamps (which were produced using hacky client-size JavaScript).

Finally, I’ve added an ad slot at the bottom of the content. This isn’t because I’m looking to make money from this site — probably for the best, given how few people read this — but rather because I’ve recently moved to the AdSense team, and it’s useful to have an account to play around with.

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