The Smidgin

Investigating the Intersection of Science and Religion

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Small Upgrades

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If you didn’t notice, the website has undergone a few changes today.  Yesterday I was inspired to move the Smidgin off of WordPress.com and host it myself.  WordPress gets top marks for how easy it is to migrate a website running on the software.  You can literally export from one website and import into another and, voila, it is ready to go.  (With a bit of tweaking to file storage, virtual hosts, mod_rewrite, and the like, of course.)

One of the nice things about hosting the site myself is that I can make minor changes and updates to the theme and various other pages.  Another one is that I can now more directly include The Smidgin: Development instead of having the site split across two servers.  And, finally, I now have direct control over my Google Analytics, which is an awful fun piece of software to play with.

If you see any bugs, let me know. I tried to make everything transfer as easily as possible, but more than likely I messed up somewhere.

Enjoy the new site!

Written by Jim

11 July 2008 at 04:24

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BBC Redesign

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BBC appears to have sent the redesign of their website public last night.  When I checked the news page this morning, it looked like this:

 BBC News

My initial impressions are favorable.  They’ve retained the main red color, while still making it a bit less forceful.  Everything is basically in the same locations, but I can tell that there is more whitespace in the design.  Remember, in web design “whitespace is your friend”.

Not having spent much time on the rest of  bbc.co.uk, I can’t really comment on it, though it does look like the redesign spans the whole site.  I wish I had a screenshot of any part before the redesign.  (Though if you just want to look at one, there are plenty on Flickr.)

Written by Jim

31 March 2008 at 06:32

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A New Look

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As you may have noticed, I’ve updated the look of the site. It’s somewhat simpler, but I needed a change. Let me know what you think of it.

Written by Jim

27 December 2007 at 12:12

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