Josh On Design

After over a year of living with my custom built blog system I'd finally had enough last weekend. Time for something new. Something less buggy. Something extensible. So I took a day and rewrote it from scratch.

The new blog system is still custom, and still based on Node, but now backed by a real database ReThinkDB. Also, having many more months of Node and JS experience means I have a better idea of what I'm actually doing now. The new system integrate pages and posts into a single system, automatically tracks traffic, and calculate the sidebar links based on which content is the most popular. All with a single DB query, actually.

In any case, the internals probably aren't very interesting to you. More interesting is the new design, hopefully a bit cleaner and easier to read. I chose new colors and fonts, restyled a few things, and built a new custom layout from scratch. Of particular importance to me is that the pages scale properly on all device screens, from the lowly smart phone, through varying tablets, to the gargantuan widescreen desktop computer. If you resize you're browser you'll see the fonts and margins shift to always provide the optimum experience.

I just turned the new blog on tonight, so If you notice any broken links or JavaScript errors, please contact me on Twitter, G+, email, etc. Thanks, and have a great weekend.