My web site got finally a much needed cleanup. The main idea is to get a focus on fresh content, in a blog style, although I only want to post valuable content, even if it means few posts. Readers, if I get any.. can easily subscribe to the RSS feed to get informed of new posts.

I’m not using a specific blogging tool. Most of them are using a SQL database, and I wanted a simpler solution. Supporting comments wasn’t a requirements and I don’t expect to have that many posts to support. Blosxom would have been a good option, as it is very light and stores posts in text files, but it requires Perl, which isn’t supported by my ISP. I found Blosxom.PHP, a PHP version of it, but it didn’t work correctly for me. I finally took Blosxom.PHP and customized it for my specific needs, mostly by removing most of the more advanced features.

I’ve also started to use CSS in the site. This page is using CSS, and I might switch other parts of the site to it too (the CV Tutorial is already done). This is really much more convenient than HTML only and many tables…

Two links that I found while learning CSS and that are worth noting

An impressive demonstration on what can be done with CSS, and a good CSS tutorial. And Google is your friend of course.

As a rule, I never change the name of an existing file. Some external site might link to it, or someone have a bookmark, and I don’t want to break them.

I still need to cleanup some sections of the site, put the most interesting content more visible, and of course, publish new things!

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