Nearly two and a half months have passed, since I announced, that the new design was 60% done. But as always I just didn’t recon, that the last 10% of doing something will take more than 90% of the time.
All the fresh designed elements had to be merged to one whole piece, some plugins had to be written to give me the functionality and features I needed (or just wanted to have). Some thoughts on organizing content had to be done, so I could use given features in a way, they weren’t meant (e.g. the multiple page system to implement bilingual posting (though multiple page posts don’t work correctly in feeds (a WordPress bug I guess))).
Also learning for tests, doing some homework and of course laziness, made this time span not really shorter.
Finally its done, so what changed? First of all, the eye catching part, the design has changed, from a dark to a bright one … I just wanted some more brightness in my blog. I as well made the width fixed, mainly because its easier to read shorter lines, then long ones. Also my logo has changed from a angled appearance to a round and more symetrical one and I like the new one very much.
Also the URL changed to http://blog.cyphic.net, but the old one will still be redirected for at least a half year.
The biggest change is and will be the bilingual apearance of posts, therefore I misuse the multipage funktionality of WordPress. You can find the option to change to the othe language at the top, as well as at the bottom of a post, if more than one language is availible.
And for a better organization I added a tag system, you will find the tags of a post at the bottom of these, followed by a link to the whole tag cosmos that you also can find in the navigation on the right, when you are in the main view.
So enjoy the new sOph:uncut:blog …
