Refreshed, Again

It’s been almost exactly one month since the last update to everyone’s favorite web blog, and what a wonderful month it has been.

CSS 3 and HTML 5

The site is now running under HTML 5 and CSS 3, which both offer major improvements into how the site is, and can be, presented. CSS 3 allows me to use incredibly new fonts for some awesome typography, round corners on div’s, and some cool layout abilities.

HTML 5 allows me to actually host my own videos and audio without resorting to an external source, such as YouTube or Flickr, but I do anyway, because those services are faster, and they have a lot of money in their infrastructure.

Plus, these two standards are quite new, and adopting new technologies is a wise choice, especially in web design. Too bad Microsoft with their aging Trident parsing engine, needs some clever hacks in order to keep up with WebKit and Mozilla’s Gecko engines.

So, What’s New?

So, what exactly is new? Besides the cool enhancements running under the hood, the better performance, and more blurbs posted, lots of exciting things:

• An informative footer
• A brand new navigation toolbar
• Social media links
• A brand new CSS rewrite of the layout
• powered by Compass and Baseline
• Easier to read fonts
• The “Mashup” page
• Cooler jQuery qTip powered tooltips

What’s Next?

Ah, the grand ol’ question, what could possibly be next? Well, besides the ever so popular bugfixing and occasional tweaks here and there to fix hacks, I should be just about done touching the majority of the code base for now, unless something breaks with the pending update to Ruby 1.9 (which shouldn’t break anything anyway). I do have to implement the next step of web killer blog features (microformats!!!) and finally fix the RSS feed, which works in FireFox, but not Safari for some reason.

Ah well! :D It’s been a very webby month, and I’m sure that I’ll be revealing more about my current work in progress project sometime soon.