www.chrisdarbro.com – Chris Darbro

So, another new year’s resolution for 2005 in the bag: Re-do the site. This new look has a much cleaner look I think, among many other improvements and additions. For example, there’s the ‘quote of the day’ and ‘word of the day’ up top, which are awesomely cool in my opinion. My homepage everyday is set to give me a word of the day and a quote of the day, I like to learn something new every day, so I while Im at it I add a new word to my vocabulary and a quote to relate to something in life with. I figured it’d be neato if I could do the same with the site. Every day there will be a new quote and word. Neat-O!

I think everything has a much cleaner look to it as well, it’s definatly an improvement on the old one. Although, admittedly, the new one is made to look good at resolutions of 1024×768 or higher, any lower and the top might look messy. I figure these days most everyone should be using at least that anyway, so I figure it’s a pretty safe bet it’ll look good for most everyone. I havent tested it yet, but everyone *should* be able to leave comments on my posts as well if they so desire. You’ll also notice the ‘Archives’ are MUCH cleaner. The calendar for accessing them on the left hand side is a lot more convenient than the old way.

In addition to that, there’s also a search function on the right hand side, which im sure will come in handy if ever I say I didnt say something on here and someone wants to check and make sure and call me on it. hehe. Up top in the title bar there’s a few more random titles added as well, hopefully they provide some good laughs. Also, only 3 blog entries display on the page at a time, so at the end of the months there’s not 15 long entries making the site load slower.

But the best thing of all: the way this new one is set up, it makes it super easy for me to update from anywhere, make backups of the entries, and not have to worry about losing blog entries because of the old way I used to manage them. Speaking of, I found those missing entries I was talking about in my last post, and added them back in, so that’s all cool.

Of course, I kinda dug some aspects of the old look, so I tried to mesh that in to the new one as well, keeping much of the layout the same, the clean white look, and my old logo at the top.

Anyway, outside of that not much else going on. There’s a lot of stuff going on, and not at the same time. Its hard to explain. But for now, not much else to comment on. If any one notices any bugs or anything while using the site, get in touch with me somehow and let me know, There’s a lot of new technoligies and things Ive put into this site compared to the old static one, theres always the possibility I screwed something up somewhere that I might have missed, if so, let me know.