I have made a few alterations to the site that I thought might be nice to point out to some of the seasoned visitors. I have added a functional footer at the bottom of the page that lists the most recent comments across all articles and I have also added a popular article section. Basically the more traffic an article gets the more popular I rank it. Pretty simple and to the point, I will watch it to see how well it works. Also I may end up clearing it our weekly or monthly to ensure that a page that is super popular doesn’t just stay there forever.

Also I realized that HTML Tidy isn’t 100% acurate in xHTML validation. So I corrected some validation issues based off of the W3’s specifications. The site is back to being 100% xHTML 1.0 Strict compliant which should be a nice little treat. It is also (as always) cross-browser compatible. I just did some minor tweaks in some little things that were over looked and how things were displayed. The CSS is also validated now but I use a CSS3 specification of opacity for some internal icons that don’t validateâ�� but I don’t care. The opacity CSS identifier works on IE7, Firefox and Opera and I think that is good enough for me. (more…)

Popularity: 3%

I decided not to make a sneak preview and that I would go ahead and just implement a new design rather then waste my time making the preview. The new design will be an ongoing project and I will try to keep the layout the same so that everyone can navigate the site easily.

A few quick things about the new web site design, first the site is XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant and works on IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari and Opera all the same way. Which is always a little frustrating at times. (more…)

Popularity: 4%