Fresh lick of paint

So many internet people work on personal projects over the festive break that it’s basically a tradition all of its own. You’ll notice that I’ve joined that throng this year.

Redesigning this website has been on a to-do list for ages, and yesterday I found the time to finish off what I’d started in between jobs in February.

The main changes I made:

added simple search
simplified navigation
cleaner look with more spacing

Search is very simple, not sophisticated in the slightest. It will find every instance of the in my posts, for example. But it should help people find things more easily. It’s dead easy to find all the posts in which I’ve mentioned OKRs, for instance.

Adding search means I could simplify navigation, adding fewer links to the header. You can still find posts by topic but I expect more people will want the finer-grained controls of search. I’ve kept a short list of related posts at the bottom of each piece, as those are far more popular than any other feature.

The new styling is a lot cleaner, more modern, than the previous theme. It looks a bit less 2015, a bit more 2025. It’s a single column layout on mobile still, but two-column on desktop with navigation on the left. I’ve removed the footer for now but I’ll bring this back once I get my head around flex CSS. Overall, there’s less stuff to distract the eye. Oh, and I’ve added dark mode.

I think I’ve ironed out the kinks in the design but please let me know if anything’s clunky or doesn’t work. First on the list is adding a button to search, but shout if there’s anything else.