New site

Yet another upgrade of my site has arrived. This time a brand new layout, designed from scratch. Regular visitors probably have to get used to the new feeling as its completely different. I divided the main page into two columns, one contains posts about my daily life and the other about tech-stuff and other things. I noticed not everyone is interested to have both topics in one feed, so from now there is a main feed, a feed for the life topics and a feed for the tech-topics available. Just hit the little buttons at the corresponding category. The main feed is available in the main menu by clicking on Subscribe.

This time my site supports ALL major browsers, including Internet Explorer 6! Wow! Isn’t it great? My previous site wasn’t working properly in IE 6 because it doesn’t support transparent PNG‘s. Using GIF was no option. Make sure you also check my site in Safari. It got all kind of fancy shadow effects and stuff. I hope Firefox will have some CSS3 support soon too.

It is not only the design that has been changed, also the backup is different. It has been changed to Movable Type 4. This is a new version of the famous Movable Type blogging platform and it’s great! Much better than its previous version 3. However, before I was using Mephisto. A very good blogging system, much better than for example Wordpress. But now I’m using a VPS I want to spare as much memory as I can, because the blog is not the only running application. Movable Type doesn’t have a daemon running, so that was the trigger to switch. There are no existing converters from Mephisto to Movable Type. So I just wrote a script which exports all Mephisto data to a Movable Type import file. I wrote a tutorial here.

Anyway, the coming week I’m doing some experiments on the design. For example, I still want to add a search form, but don’t know where yet. Please give me some feedback on the changes!