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The Evolutionary Process

Readers might notice some recent changes in the design of ‘our little corner of the web’. Or not so much changes as little evolutions which yours truly has deemed worthy and appropriate. I’ll be the first to admit there’s a strong chance we’ve had a few too many evolutions of late. There was a November 2009 redesign and then February 2010, with a new nameplate just a few weeks later, and heck it’s only May now. God willing I’ll find a job soon and won’t have so much free time to fritter away redesigning andrewcusack.com.

There was scurrilous talk in some quarters decrying the loss of our somewhat Germanic-looking wordmark for a more Wall Street Journal-inspired typeface, which I completely ignored. Gradually, however, I began to rather miss it myself, and so it has been duly resurrected, as well as returned to its original home at the center (it had been flush-left). Those who approve may give their thanks to loyal reader Tim Conroy, who was ardently resolute in his centrist rhetoric.

This site functions thanks to the WordPress content management system, and I have designed the WordPress themes (which determine what the site looks like) myself. I had mentioned in November that the new theme was called ‘Goteborg’ (after the Swedish port of Gothenburg), which was replaced in February by ‘Elsenburg’ (a misspelling of Elsenberg, the country house turned agricultural college near Stellenbosch). This new theme, ninety percent of which is the same as Elsenburg, is called ‘Rouwkoop’, after the house I wrote about previously.

Comments and thoughts, whether in favour or against, are cautiously welcome, and of course do please let me know if you notice anything isn’t functioning.

Published at 8:38 pm on Sunday 23 May 2010. Categories: Errant Thoughts.
Comments

Andrew,

I thought you might wantg to know that on my Mac there are a few gray swathes of blank canvas. Would you like me to send you a screengrab, so you know what I mean?

— Mark M 24 May 2010 3:57 am

Please do. Sounds like trouble!

I’m on a Mac and it shows up fine. Is yours particularly old or particularly new?

— Andrew Cusack 24 May 2010 9:07 am

I’m using Camino 2.0.2 (latest version) on a Powerbook running OS X 10.4.11 (ppc).

I’ll send you some screenshots.

— Mark M 24 May 2010 2:42 pm

Every things looks clean and operational on my :

– Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Dell Latitude 2100 netbook running Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8

– Windows XP Home Version 2002 SP3 Acer Aspire netbook running Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3

– Windows XP Pro Version 2002 SP3 Cooler Master PC workstation running Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3, MS IE 7, and Chrome 4.1.249.1064 (45376)

I like the current look-and-feel a bit better than the immediate previous release, but I really prefer the look-and-feel of two releases back (circa Autumn 2009, methinks).

— Dave Cooper 26 May 2010 2:25 am

Out of curiosity, why do you use ab unde condita (AUC) in your dating scheme at the top?

— Alessandro 29 May 2010 10:00 am

Ab urbe condita, Alessandro. From the founding of the [Roman] city- but you probably know that. I can’t say I know why he uses it. Perhaps it’s because the only other western dating system? Or perhaps for the convenience of time traveling Romans?

— K. Dontoh 31 May 2010 2:09 pm
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