Chuck's Musings

I liked how my CSS-based navigation bar turned out, so I thought of integrating it into my website’s design. As of this writing, I only included a basic “sitemap” menu and a filler menu for recent blog posts.

I’ll probably think of other things to add there as time goes by.

On closer inspection, adding that menu has a nice side effect towards search engine optimization, because a clean, straightforward list of URLs can be found at the very top of the code, before the other presentational bits. Which means search engines can see my site map a lot easier.

I was rearranging some stuff earlier today, I didn’t like how my alternate design turned out (the one with semitransparent content blocks partially overlapping with the top portion of layout). So I reverted to the original layout I made. I still have to work on the content area’s layout though.

Aside from that, I added two circular icons representing the major areas of the website. The first one being the home page and the second being this blog’s home page.

Also like previously mentioned, I coded in a little widget that grabs the ten most recent blog entries and displays their title and excerpt on the home page.

I’m still thinking what else to place into the home page though.