Mar 1, 2009
A few little changes
I’ve been doing a little spring cleaning through a fog of sleepiness, with the following results:
- New design! Heavily based on Grid Focus theme, but borrowing header elements (principally, the way the Flickr images are displayed) from Derek Powazek’s excellent DePo clean. I hope it’s easier to read and navigate.
- Avatars! If you have a gravatar (or you’ve got an avatar with wordpress.com) then it should show up next to your comment, if you leave one.
- Registration! If you’re a regular reader, you can go here and register on this site, which gives you precisely NO perks and NO special exciting stuff, but may at some point in the future do something more interesting. In the meantime, why not?
- Sharing! While some would say that the web managed to function perfectly well without social bookmarking buttons on sites, I say why let a little innovation come between friends? At the bottom of every post you should now see a button which says “share..”, the clicking of which should make it easier than ever for you to syndicate any meish.org links onto twitter, facebook, your own blog, delicious and dozens of other social curation and creation sites which we never knew existed until now.
- Custom greetings based on referrer! Thanks to the clever WP Greet Box plugin, people arriving at specific posts here from Twitter, Delicious, search engines and the like are greeted by a special little hello. The rest of you shouldn’t get anything at all. Sorry. I can make you a cake if you want, though?
- Subscribe to comments! Exactly what it says on the tin! You can tick a box in the comment-submission place to be alerted when someone leaves a comment after yours on a particular thread. Never again will you need suffer a sleepless night of wondering whether anyone commented after you.
- Now with added duck! With over nine years of wibbling on this site, there’s no sensible way to navigate through the archives, so I figured we might as well have a daft way instead. Lightly caress the duck at the top right of each page to be taken to a random post from the archives. Hours of mindless time-wasting await you!
Phew. Time for a sit down and a cup of tea, I think.
Thoughts, comments, suggestions and chocolate biccies to the usual place, please.
looks good, i got the “WP Greet Box” saying that i got here from a Google search and i should subscribe to the RSS feed, i actually got here google reader and already subscribe.
like the idea of the random post!
Me likey. I’ll be ‘borrowing’ from this I think, as I’m in the midst of a redesign myself (not as radical, just the top bit on my website could do with a kicking)
Ooh how exciting. It looks great! I’ll be checking out the duck feature now… all blogs should have a duck.
It is lovely, although if you want me to caress a duck I think you should at least buy me a drink first.
ooh, we got a new look last month and it’s similar colours to yours – must be very ‘now’ I guess..? We don’t have any duck features though. I feel we’re failing our readership there.
Like the new features – and love that owl pic in today’s G2 post!