{"id":321,"date":"2007-01-01T22:23:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T03:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/welcome_to_goerorg_30"},"modified":"2013-11-18T01:07:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T01:07:53","slug":"welcome_to_goerorg_30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2007\/01\/welcome_to_goerorg_30.html","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to goer.org 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>goer.org: weblog. A website barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it.<br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.org\/Style\/CSS\/\">We<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sixapart.com\/movabletype\/\">have<\/a><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/atomenabled.org\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yui\/\">technology<\/a>.<br \/>\n  We have the capability to make the world&#8217;s first&#8230;<br \/>\n  errr, scratch that, we have the capability to make <em>Evan&#8217;s<\/em> first<br \/>\n  not-completely-hideous website. goer.org will be that website. Better than<br \/>\n  it was before. Better&#8230; stronger&#8230; faster.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, after almost five years, I&#8217;ve finally redesigned the ol&#8217; blog template. Out with the hideous green of goer.org 2.0, and in with the soothing earth tones of goer.org 3.0! (Hmm, so what was goer.org <em>1.0<\/em>, then? You <a href=\"\/Toys\/Law\/\">really don&#8217;t want to know<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Aside from being vaguely displayable in Netscape Navigator 4, the previous design had very little to recommend it. The new design has several advantages over the old, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not hideously green.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, it&#8217;s hideously brown, you say? Well, according to Microsoft, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/portable-media\/microsoft-zune-gets-officially-announced-200641.php\">brown is the new black<\/a>. So there.<\/li>\n<li>As an added bonus, this design is one of the only sites out there where the little orange &#8220;feed&#8221; icons actually sort of harmonize.<\/li>\n<li>Atom 1.0 feeds. I was going to hilariously title this post, &#8220;Up and Atom!&#8221;, but then I discovered I was <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?ei=UTF-8&amp;fr=sfp&amp;x=wrt&amp;p=%22up%20and%20atom%22%20feed\">only about the 800th person<\/a> to come up with that.<\/li>\n<li>Individual entry archives. The old blog had everything filed away on monthly archives (mimicking the format from back before I <em>had<\/em> blog software) and presented comments in a separate pop-up window (a hack from back when <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.philringnalda.com\/2003\/05\/05\/real-xhtml\">Phil Ringnalda taunted me into opening up comments<\/a>, and that turned out the quickest way to enable them.) Now each post has its own page and its own set of <em>permalinkable<\/em> comments. Technology marches on!<\/li>\n<li>You can now post comments using a subset of John Gruber&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\/syntax\">Markdown<\/a>. That means bulleted lists, blockquotes, preformatted code blocks, and other goodies.<\/li>\n<li>There is a de.licio.us-powered linkroll.<\/li>\n<li>The site has migrated to MT 3, which has a wide array of nifty new features to play with.<\/li>\n<li>Did I mention, not hideously green?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus many other minor tweaks. And newly-introduced bugs. For one thing, this template looks a little sketchy in Internet Explorer 6. For one thing, the blockquotes are causing weird formatting glitches. Also, IE 6 does not seem to like <code>border-style: dotted<\/code>. But I&#8217;m <em>sure<\/em> this is all fixed in IE 7.<\/p>\n<p>A final note: the banner at the top is a composite of photographs from <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a>. I can&#8217;t take a picture worth a damn, but fortunately other people can&#8230; and not only that, they sometimes release their work under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\">Creative Commons<\/a> license. So thank you to the following people for making this redesign possible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/44124324682@N01\/\">mharrsch<\/a>, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/44124324682@N01\/30714377\/\">cuneiform<\/a> image<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/natematias\/\">rubberpaw<\/a>, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/natematias\/229736078\/\">torah<\/a> image<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/calliope\/\">Muffett<\/a>, for the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/calliope\/306564541\/\">illuminated manuscript<\/a> image<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/machaggis\/\">machaggis<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/machaggis\/141680290\/\">antique printing press<\/a> image<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/reivax\/\">reivax<\/a>, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/reivax\/185873726\/\">IBM Selectric<\/a> image<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/gesteves\/\">gesteves<\/a>, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/gesteves\/174194303\/\">Macintosh<\/a> image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all for now. Technically, this blog only has one post in it, so I&#8217;d better start filling it up. Don&#8217;t want to look like a newb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>goer.org: weblog. A website barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it.<br \/>\nWe have the technology. We have the capability to make the world&#8217;s first&#8230;<br \/>\nerrr, scratch that, we have the capability to make *Evan&#8217;s* first<br \/>\nnot-completely-hideous website. goer.org will be that website. Better than it was before. 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