Yep, the blog new looks better.

The look and format of this here my blog has just undergone a much delayed overhaul.

Since I occasionally have quite a bit to say, like in my previous entry or this one about where business logic should reside, I’m now only showing excerpts on the index page rather than whole entries. I’ve also gone though and added in a couple of helpful plugins such as auto suggesting related posts and easy social bookmarking. My next step is to change the source code syntax highlighting css – I’ll probably just use the Textmate bundle in Textmate.

Currently the homepage ySlow score is 79, I can get this to 85 if I concatenate and minify the css as doing this reduces size and number of requests for empty caches. This hasn’t happened yet as it’ll require a bit of hand tweaking due to not working out of the box.

Overall I’ve gone for a more clean, simple and wider look by using Acamas which is based on the opensource Thematic framework. It looks great on a Mac, pretty good under Windows and terrible in IE6. If you experience any problems, in particullar with the rss feed (now thru feedburner.com) please drop me a line.

Update: I’ve gotten the ySlow score up to 90 now as the css is contenanted and minified plus the sidebar images are now being hosted locally allowing proper expires headers. With the css files I’d simply been adding them together in the wrong order. There is still a problem with css expressions though, but this will go away when I drop the syntax highlighting plugin – further boosting my yScore.

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