Meet the new look, same as the old look

I’ve changed the look of this blog, but don’t be surprised if you don’t see any difference.

Most of the changes are ‘under the hood’ so to speak and only produce a different visual in certain browsing environments.

In the old theme (the part of the blog that determines the look) all dimensions were fixed. The new theme uses a so-called responsive design where the look of the site is determined by the width of the device you’re using to browse.

You will notice the changes the most on phones and in certain ancient web browsers, where the site will display as a single column. This has the advantage that on thin screens (phones) the browser won’t try to cram everything in, but will instead stack everything vertically.

Two other responsive features that you will see on mobile devices:

1. Images will now take up the width of the screen regardless of the size in which I’ve uploaded them. (This only goes for recent images.)
2. Some of the menus are rendered as big buttons so that you can tap them more easily with your finger.

Other changes:

• The blog now uses HTML5 and CSS3.
• The new theme is made from the ground up and no longer based on WordPress’ former default theme Kubrick.
• Some of the background colours are gone.
• I am using a new font for the headings, namely Permian by Ilya Ruderman (I used to use MS Trebuchet for headings).
• Kubrick used quote marks as bullets for list items, I’ve returned to a more classic disc.
• I have cut a lot of code.

The latter combined with the fact that I’ve released this redesign before it was ready means you’re probably going to bump into things that aren’t quite right. Please let me know when that happens.

Some screenshots showing what’s changed:

The former theme.

The new theme.

The mobile look of the new theme.

(The title of this posting refers of course to the The Who song Won’t Get Fooled Again.)

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