I added a bit of polish to the site that was sorely lacking when I migrated it over. I’m still working out the kinks and may change some of it, but it’s over all much more organized and easier to maintain.

One of the biggest changes is that the menu is now at it’s own page. The previous one was difficult to wrangle and I had to do a bunch of JS hacks to make it not frustrating to work on desktop browsers. Having its own page gives the menu room to grow, not only in length, but in depth, too. I cribbed some ideas from Jim Nielsen, where he just has a separate page for his menu, and uses CSS Transitions to make it feel less janky. Of course, this only really works well in Chromium-based browsers. However, my pages are small enough that the load time is negligible when clicking. Regardless, I set the page to transition with the auto method, which is apparently some sort of fade-in-out mechanism on Chromium.

I’ve also rid myself of jQuery, which means many of the little details like time-ago and gallery lightboxes aren’t working. I’ll figure something out there. There are plenty of JS mechanisms for that with only a minor search, it appears.

Let me know what you think!