Site Updates 80% Complete

by Latoya Peterson

Whew. That was a horrific process.

Thanks to the readers for hanging in there, to Philip for fixing stuff on vacation, and to Arturo and Andrea for holding down the fort while I went and cried over coding.

Changes completed:

• Excerpt length returns to a manual setting, so you can read the full first two or three paragraphs of a post

• Sidebars have returned as normal

• Updated logo

• Changed commenting system to Disqus – no more site crashing, slow load time, or crashing Dreamhost

Changes still in progress:

• Header a little blurry – need to properly resize
• Pages have disappeared from the front page, need to add them back
• Changed to an updated version of the old theme – this should fix the visual accessibility issues, and brings us back to the one column scroll down format most folks are accustomed to.
• Ad doesn’t fit new headerspace, need to resize and realign
• No clean break between header and sidebars
• Adding colors back into header/sidebar text

These tweaks will be made