What Else?
posted on may 26, 2003, tag: site
Entries have been few and far between over the past week or two mostly because I've been working on a new version of this website. Based on some things I've read from other weblogs lately, I decided to circumvent the Movable Type template system and go back to PHP (specifically, in this case, the Smarty PHP Template Engine) to create dynamic templates for the new version.
It's a really fantastic way to do it, to be honest. I don't have to worry about rebuilding and have much more control over how things are displayed. For instance, the new version will have the cleanest source code of any version to date. I know that means nothing to 99.9% of visitors, but a few people will appreciate it (Courtney) and for someone like me with an obsessive-compulsive nature it's really nice to see.
I've also added a few new features (breadcrumb navigation, PHP-based spell-check for previewing of comments to name a few) and changed some core functionality to smarter systems. When I'm done (about another week, I think) I'll need to design the front-end, but then it will be all ready to go. I think it's going to be the most functional version of ManiacalRage yet.
Comments
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Reid on 05/27/2003:
Looking forward to it....
n3verm0re on 05/27/2003:
Clean source is wonderful, but what the hell is breadcrumb navigation?
John on 05/31/2003:
Hmm. When I thought of breadcrumb navigation I thought of it to be something like Amazon does: remember recent items (but in Garrett's case, pages) you've viewed and list's them off to the side somewhere.
J-ho on 06/04/2003:
Have you thought about using pMachine?
It's cool stuff