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SVG logo: half the size and better quality
Its not that I’m a performance fanatic. But a fairly big part of the page weight on my new site is made up of the top logo. Which, until yesterday, was a jpg. Previously it had always been a png which seemed sharper to my eye. But it took 50 kilobytes, although it is cacheable that is still a …
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API Documentation, just about ready to launch
A short update on my site redesign. I think that I am going to be able to make the beta version of this site into the live version of this site in time for 2014! I have just wrapped up documenting the Content API, and done some prelaunch tweaks. The Perl Dancer framework has been outstandingly ni …
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Redesign update — Code on gitorious
Just a quick update today. I’ve got round to putting the charlieharvey.org.uk Dancer code up on gitorious now, for anyone who is interested to nose about. Obviously I have made sure that config files are not present so it will no work as it is. And let’s face it the code is really onl …
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Video: Redesign — popular pages, nav tree, about page carousel
This week in my site redesign video series I’ve been playing with the Twitter bootstrap carousel, working on the nav tree and taking advantage of Dancer’s dispatch to build a set of popular pages reports with APIs ad feeds. …
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Video: Redesign — objectives
I am blogging about redeveloping this site. A quick update on the comments subsystem and using the very cool mutable serializer in Dancer. Then I talk about some of the site objectives. I get cut off when saying the final objective which is just to make the site responsive. I guess I should add t …
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Video: Redesign — Dancer, DBIx::Class and Syntax Highlighting
I am blogging about redeveloping this site. Today’s installment is a bit broken. As it turns out screenr cuts you off after 5 minutes! And I am a bit long winded. I delve a bit more into Dancer, the minimalist Perl web framework and talk a bit about DBIX::Class. Unfortunately screenr broke …
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Video: Redesign — templates and typography
I am planning to blog the process of redesigning and redeveloping this site. This is the first installment of the process. This week I am just focussing on how the site looks, and developing static blocks which can be included everywhere in the site. I’ve been using Twitter’s bootstrap …
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