web site hacking
Mar. 11th, 2003 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbStarted a minor redesign of the web site (not visible yet).
I had two main goals: Reduce the amount of hunting around people have to do to find stuff, and integrate the external apps (calendar, journal) better. For the first goal, I've added a nav bar that hits the main topics. (Some of the minor stuff, like my rarely-updated 'music I like' page, will still be a little obscure.)
The problem (well, one problem) with the calendar app is that PHP iCalendar doesn't have a graceful way to link back to the rest of the site. So the calendar now lives inside a frameset--the top frame has the nav bar, so you can always hop to another section of the site.
I'm thinking about embedding my LiveJournal page inside a similar frameset, and creating a custom LJ style to make it match the site better. But if you navigate forward from the LJ--and why wouldn't you?--the nav bar frame starts to get annoying. So I'm not sure.
Anyway, if you're curious, you can see the redesign-in-progress. I want to add a mailing list and a more prominent LJ link, but aside from the "contact" link, it should all work. But it's basically the same as the current site, so it probably won't be that interesting.
I had two main goals: Reduce the amount of hunting around people have to do to find stuff, and integrate the external apps (calendar, journal) better. For the first goal, I've added a nav bar that hits the main topics. (Some of the minor stuff, like my rarely-updated 'music I like' page, will still be a little obscure.)
The problem (well, one problem) with the calendar app is that PHP iCalendar doesn't have a graceful way to link back to the rest of the site. So the calendar now lives inside a frameset--the top frame has the nav bar, so you can always hop to another section of the site.
I'm thinking about embedding my LiveJournal page inside a similar frameset, and creating a custom LJ style to make it match the site better. But if you navigate forward from the LJ--and why wouldn't you?--the nav bar frame starts to get annoying. So I'm not sure.
Anyway, if you're curious, you can see the redesign-in-progress. I want to add a mailing list and a more prominent LJ link, but aside from the "contact" link, it should all work. But it's basically the same as the current site, so it probably won't be that interesting.
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Date: 2003-03-12 08:22 am (UTC)