David Ancell / Saturday May 17, 2014
Ok, hopefully this is the last post about my site. I finally decided how I wanted to my site to look, and I found out it wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought to accomplish it. I have more work to do, and I think I will just make updates to this post rather than keep posting about the site.
From about 2005 – 2010, I had a site and a blog that were similar in appearance and developed on a content management system that I had personally created. However, the need to move the page resulted in my creating a new site rather hurriedly because the new server couldn’t support my system. I could not remake a blogging system, so I used WordPress with a theme that didn’t match my page. I have realized that my blog is the main thing that gets content, so I decided to make it the focus of my site. From now on, going to www.davidancell.com will take you to the blog that now has the name of my web page. If you use the old address, you will be redirected.
I built my own WordPress theme, and I literally learned how to do this last week. I used my old blog from 2005 as the model. Needless to say, it still needs some work. I still need to:
Recreate my links and blogroll. Update: Links and blogroll are back up, as well as the page of recommended books.
Restore the ability to comment Update: Comments are working again!
Replace that logo. That picture of me looks like my toddler kept me up for three nights straight, but it’s from 2005, when he didn’t exist. Update: I did it! My wife took my picture for a new logo, and now I’ve got it up.
And last but not least . . . Make this design responsive so you don’t have to zoom on a mobile device. I just had it but lost it. Update: I have started on this. If you use this site on a smartphone or tablet, you should notice that the sidebar drops to the bottom. My next project is to add a menu and search that can be accessed from the top of the page when using a mobile device.
I hope you will enjoy the new site!
Update #1: I just added an RSS Feed link so you can subscribe to the blog. I also managed to get my links to my Twitter feed, Google+ page, and main site back on the page.
Update on 6/28/2014: As I am learning some tricks, I have done more with this site than I thought I was going to do. I have added custom fonts and changed the look of the sidebar a bit. The biggest thing you will notice is that I have added a top menu bar. Even on a mobile device the button that reveals the hidden menu looks like the menu bar. The main thing I need to do is fix the logo at the top. I just need to get a new picture taken. Any ideas for what that should look like?
One thing that I will say is that, while his page should work on older browsers, I am targeting newer ones. I know it looks funny on any version of Internet Explorer older than version 9.
Update on 7/6/2014: My web page has now been officially redesigned. I’ve accomplished what I set out to do. In the future, I want to revise the code for HTML 5, but that’s an under-the-hood project that may not even be noticed. It will take a long time as I need to read up more on HTML 5. Of course, as I learn more, there may still be some design changes.
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