Posted by Matt on Jul 12, 2009
Site Update
I decided my last layout was too spartan. I figured a splash of color was due so that lead me to this new layout. Navigation is still being worked on. However, I think this is a little easier on the eyes.
Technologies Used
CSS
First and foremost, I’m passable at CSS and will take any help I can get. So the major lifting of the CSS of my site is provided by Blueprint CSS. This allows to me quickly structure my site and all thats left for me is to tweak my colors , my floats, and whitespace.
JavaScript
I realize I’m barely using JavaScript on my site. The exception is the rounded corners on the bottom of my blog. This is built using JQuery UI. It’s as simple as add “ui-corner-bottom” to the element I want to style. Simple.
CMS
I have updated my blog to RadiantCMS 0.8. I’m happy the Radiant team has moved their product to Rails 2.3.2 and updated their HAML version. We’re migrating our sites at work to Radiant and I’m happier with this release than the previous ones. It’s a bit easier to create extensions this go around. I’ve still run into some problems with writing unit tests for the extensions, but overall its an improvement.