I'd like to hear what the bit-tech community has got to say about my blog, but not just from the design standpoint. I've tried to adhere to standards, including XHTML 1.1, CSS2, Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0, so any input on things that I should be doing or things that I'm doing wrong would be appreciated. Also, I know my CMS makes the ugliest URLs known to man, but I don't really have a problem with that; should I be concerned? That being said, I'd still like some feedback on my design.
really cool, love it. only one thing! The glow on the logo. Thats the only thing I'm not too keen on. Is that all on your cms you made then? I've been trying to get wordpress working myself, but its all a bit complicated for my liking.. Might just have to learn another trick (php) and do it myself
I think no glow on the logo would be too plain, but it does look a bit fuzzy to my eye. Maybe sharpen it just a tad, otherwise, the page looks very nice.
Neat. logo: try making it a cut-out through to the white. those URLs are hideous though - I'd go with something like what wordpress does if I were you. it's so not complicated.
Considering i'm theming it from scratch, trying to make it into a portfolio and I have no prior php knowledge, i say it is. I'm also trying to integrate sifr into the design, but unfortunately due to the way it adds a / after the page (ie blog.php/archive/new_post/) it breaks the link to the javascript. (and yes, I've tried an absoloute link, and no, it doesn't work)
I tried making the logo a cutout, but I just couldn't make it look right without being fuzzy. I think I'm going to keep it how it is now. The URLs are much more friendly now. Not only has everything dropped the ".php" suffix (for instance about.php is now about/), but the articles are referenced like this: entries/YYYY/MM/DD/hhmmss. Still long, but no strange characters.
They seem fine to me - and I noticed your using the ISO standard date format too. I'm impressed you've validated to XHTML 1.1/CSS2, as I'm yet to find another site that does and advertises it too.
those new URLS are a massive improvement Ah. I got the impression that you wanted to either use Wordpress as is OR create a whole CMS from scratch. Let me recommend Sandbox, which I used for my blog. That's not the ISO date format (assuming you mean ISO8601 ), it uses '-' and 'T' as the date and time separators.
I just checked my site out, it does pretty well actually. There are only a few unique errors. I might try and sort that out tonight. @hacker 8991: Logo looks better @jazzle: Just checking it out, looks good. Thanks
Thanks for the comments so far, they've been helpful. Just to clear things up, I use the ISO 8601 date format to store the files, you don't ever actually see it on the site in any way.
