tag:www.fibble.org,2008://1/tag:www.fibble.org,2006://1.455- 2008-11-09T15:06:10Z Comments for The Guided Tour Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies... Movable Type 4.21-en tag:www.fibble.org,2006://1.455 2006-03-02T21:01:16Z 2006-03-02T21:40:20Z The Guided Tour So now that the new look's in place, I thought I'd point out a few of the highlights of the new look. Porting a theme from one blog engine to another also forced me to look closely at the inner... Grant Goodale http://www.fibble.org So now that the new look's in place, I thought I'd point out a few of the highlights of the new look. Porting a theme from one blog engine to another also forced me to look closely at the inner workings of my site; there are a few changes here and there that some of you might find interesting or useful.

The bar at the top of the screen is something of a control panel - with the controls up there, you can personalize the look of the site a bit, making the text bigger and changing how the different elements of the page interact with one another. So if, for example, you preferred the old layout's leftist approach to sidebar content, you can get it back with the 'Left Navigation' button. (Leave your mouse pointer over the individual buttons to see what they do.) You can get a full explanation of the panel's capabilitites by clicking the 'help?' link in the upper left hand corner of the site.

The site is now being indexed by both category and date, as evidenced by the new 'Categories' sidebar item. (I know the checkboxes next to the archive links are a bit borked at the moment - I'm looking into it.) Comments can now be entered directly into the web page of an entry, rather than the old popup method. You're still welcome to leave an email address and web site link when you post - click the 'leave your email or website' link in the comment form to expose those (optional) fields.

Perhaps my favorite feature is the new per-post comment feed. This will probably only appeal to me, but I get a kick out of it. If you're reading my site through a feed reader such as Bloglines and have an interest in a particular post's comments, you can now subscribe to an RSS feed of those comments and be notified when I or someone else posts a comment about that post. Silly, I know, but how often have you commented on something and then wondered whether or not I'd replied? Never? Well, fine.

Add that to all of the general 'should've worked in the first place' stuff - a 404 page that actually looks good (try it out!), search results that look good, a bunch of refactoring to make these changes easier next time I get a burr under my saddle, and so forth, and it's almost as though I care about this blog. Who knew?

(And before anyone asks - I did all of this Monday night, while semi-high on cold medicine. Remarkable stuff - no wonder it goes into crystal meth.)

]]> tag:www.fibble.org,2006://1.455-comment:759 Comment from darek on 2006-03-08 darek a nice engine! I'd consider changing the design/colors a bit, though... But still, impressive!

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