I’ve made some minor tweaks to this site during the last few weeks.
The displaying of comments has improved, most notably the comment time, as opposed to only the date. I didn’t go as far as to implement threaded comments in my theme, because as they are now, with a fixed width, I don’t really see a viable way to clearly distinguish between levels. That will be something for an upcoming theme.
Notices and warnings now have a uniform appearance, with nicely rounded corners in browsers that support the CSS3 border-radius property. Same goes for form buttons, which had the default browser appearance until recently.
Other than that, there have been numerous small, less notable, improvements all over the place. As for the upcoming theme I mentioned above: don’t expect something anytime soon. It is currently no more than some vague ideas and sketches.
I’ve made a few small tweaks to my new design. There are always some things that don’t exactly work as planned, things still needing to be worked out, and things that simply came up along the way.
First of all, there was nothing to open full-size images in-page for thumbnails, they just behaved like normal links. I formerly used Lightbox for that, but was never really happy with it. Fiddled around somewhat with other implementations, and ended up using Shadowbox on this web site from now on.
Then, I recreated the Files section — which now makes use of Shadowbox for images and movies — and the font-size adjustment — which can now be found to the right of the main menu.
Also, since the fixes for Internet Explorer require JavaScript to be enabled anyway, I decided JavaScript could just as well handle the loading of said fixes. So I removed the conditional comment (nasty thing 
) from the HTML.
And lastly, I didn’t particularly like the gray background, but hadn’t decided yet what to do with it. As you can see, I have now.
Now that I have ample time available, I’ve looked at some issues that I still had with this web site.
First of all, the page navigation on the left was somewhat buggy. When one was somewhere inside the blog, the “Blog” item in the menu would not be highlighted. That’s been fixed.
Secondly, the page titles were inconsistent. Static pages were OK, but in the blog, somtimes there was a page title (when inside archives or posts), but for example on the main blog page, it simply said “helvensteijn.com”, without any page title. Not very nice. Now, whenever one is somewhere inside the blog, the title will reflect that correctly. On the main blog page, it now sais “helvensteijn.com ยป Blog” and deeper inside the blog, it will tell you where you are.
The third issue was that one could not post any comment while logged in. Since I’m the only user and I have user registration disabled, this actually only concerned me. But still it was annoying (there’s some top-secret password-protected pages on this site where I use comments to keep track of certain things concerning this site, like bugs to squash 
). That was probably due to some stupid mistake that I made earlier when prepping this site for initial launch. It took me a while to trace it back to it’s origin, but now I’m finally able to comment on myself while logged in. 
Then, I tweaked the home page to always be /home/ instead of / for more clarity. Whenever someone tries to access / on this site, he or she is silently redirected to /home/ to reflect that in their browser.
And finally, to the outside world probably the most visible change, the home page now lists the three most recent posts from my blog.
