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+postid: 016
+title: The Tar Pit: changes [iii]
+excerpt: Journal entry for The Tar Pit version 0.3.
+author: Lucian Mogoșanu
+date: January 2, 2014
+tags: asphalt
+---
+
+I am not a graphical designer. If I were one, I would be mediocre at best. Now,
+if we take a step back to get an overview of how the Web looks after almost
+twenty-five years of evolution, we'll figure out that this position is actually
+not bad at all and could possibly earn someone a decent salary. Still, I'd be
+constantly unsettled with my mediocrity and would die a sorry, unhappy man.
+
+[Having said that][1], a couple of months ago I had a good look at [the
+previous iteration][2] of The Tar Pit and decided that I didn't quite like how
+it looked. It wasn't that bad, yet it didn't look particularly good either.
+That is why I had to take my time and figure out where I'm heading with it; and
+here it is.
+
+One of the things I'm trying to do is use CSS the way it was intended, as much
+as it is possible. Therefore I deemed the previous layout to be "not simple
+enough" and removed a lot of the boilerplate lying around in the code and
+replaced it with simpler, more down-to-earth stuff. This should be visible
+mainly in the page loading times; they should have been small enough anyway,
+but I just wanted to make sure. As an intended side effect, I made an update to
+aspects related to the fonts, which in retrospective might have been a
+particularly bad choice. If you had any doubts that I'm not a graphical
+designer, they should be cleared by now.
+
+Regarding the site's structure, two things were fundamentally misplaced in the
+previous version(s). The first was the content of the home page, which for some
+reason included labels only because I didn't know where else to put them.
+Labels are now part of the [archive][3], although I still use them more for
+semantic annotation than for actual archiving.
+
+The second obvious problem was related to the Contact page: on one hand it
+lacked content and on the other it had possibly relevant information requiring
+an additional click from the reader. So the content from that page lies now in
+a dedicated section of the home page.
+
+As I was saying [a while ago][4], The Tar Pit is, like any software, supposed
+to evolve, grow organically and mature, which I have a feeling it slowly does.
+And I am quite happy with that, at least for the time being.
+
+[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgd2w0SQEYI
+[2]: /posts/y00/00c-changes-2.html
+[3]: /archive.html
+[4]: /posts/y00/006-the-tar-pit-on-github.html