buckyschwarz.net

I’ve finished the second redesign of my site. After using jQuery extensively while preparing a presentation for my local ColdFusion usergroup, I decided that I wanted to redo my site with more jQuery. I initially wrote it using PHP, styled it, and published it, but quickly grew tired of the dark scheme. I’ve restyled it now with a lighter theme, which I’m pretty pleased with. I’ve also gotten my WordPress custom theme pages working correctly, and it was surprisingly easy.

So that’s about it.

I’ve made some changes to my site: I redesigned (read: designed) it with a new layout, changed the default behavior so going to buckyschwarz.net doesn’t take you to the blog, and played around with Wordpress layouts to integrate blog posts directly into the site, viewable by going to the blog navigation header tab.

All of this was done because 1) I had a lot of free time, not having a job, 2) I was bored, and 3) I wanted to refine my PHP skills and increase my knowledge and skill with the language. It’s a work in progress, as always, but so far, I’m pretty happy with the results. As of now, I haven’t gotten comments to show up or work when integrated with the site, which is fine because 1) no one is reading this blog in the first place and 2) when people are reading it, which they aren’t, no one is commenting. The tags still aren’t showing up, which is kind of disappointing and frustrating, so I’m going to work to get that up as soon as possible.