From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 11:14:38 +0000 (+0200) Subject: posts: 016 X-Git-Tag: v0.4~30 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=444e9e79a931ea34fe794a46e82d5a06ada1d7a8;p=thetarpit.git posts: 016 --- diff --git a/posts/y00/016-changes-3.markdown b/posts/y00/016-changes-3.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6ac556 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/y00/016-changes-3.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +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