Some Changes Around the Site

Last night I made some adjustments to the theme/design:

I changed my markup to be more in line with HTML5, primarily as a result of Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into HTML5 chapter on the changed semantics. It’s not yet clear how microformats will be affected, so I’ve largely left the existing classes intact.

Of note:

  • I had to add a CSS rule to make HTML5 elements display as intended: article, footer, header, nav, section { display: block; }
  • I added quite a few rel='external's
  • I was pleased to see that we can, in fact, remove type='text/stylesheet' from CSS declarations (because what other stylesheet language is there?)

I also un-hid the Tumblr bar. Previously I’d had the CSS rule iframe#tumblr_controls { display: none; } because I felt the bar interfered with the design.

Keywords are now exposed for each post. This is something that I’d written about ten months ago, but was reluctant to implement because I liked the minimal amount of metadata I displayed on entries. I’m not entirely satisfied with the way it came out, but it works okay for now.

There are other changes I’ve been working on, but I don’t think they’re quite ready yet.

written 2 November, 02009 Comments