Drew 3.0 Release!

I’ve been talking about redesigning the site, mainly the home page, for a couple of months now, and I’ve finally come close enough to put it out there. I combined the blog with the home page, so you just go to hevle.com to see what's up. I also integrated multiple blots on the home page ("What I'm Reading Now" and "What I'm Reading Now [for Book Club]") that will allow me to easily update using Blogger. The "Today's Quiz" and "Today's Poll" had to go; there was no easy way for me to update these. Down the road, I'm going to use this strategy on the Books page. There’s a slightly new format, wider, with more subdued colors.

I also better implemented some of the features of Blogger, like:
- Individual post links (just click on the hyperlink at the bottom of the post, shown as the time of posting)
- Automatically generated list of recent posts
- Automatically generated archive pages
- RSS syndication (that’s the “feeds” section)
- Contextual titles and menus - The same template builds dozens of different web pages, not just the home page, and they need to look different, so there’s a bunch of code in the Blogger template to do this. The template is hosted on Blogger's site, and Blogger builds and uploads each of the pages on my server when I add a post, or change the template.

I also allowed comments on the blog posts as well. My fear in allowing comments was not that I'd receive negative comments, but that I won't receive any comments at all, and at the bottom of every post, you'll see "0 comments"


Late.