I’ve been working on replacing the new design for a while. The old one was looking fairly old, even thought it was less than a year old…
I also wanted to change the design so that it could be used for different projects that I’m doing. This means that the PHP Lastfm API website and the Lugaru Downloader website are now part of this site, rather than having there own designs. I’ve wanted to do this for a while to keep things for organised and make them all seem like they are linked together.
Another thing I wanted to do was to add a list of recent blog posts to the home page of my website. All I did for this was use Last RSS to get a list of recent blog posts and put them up onto the front page. It’s a really simple class to use. I highly recommend it. I also got rid of the loading of the latest updates list by doing the generation of the list automatically at regular intervals using cron and then just including the html on the home page.
Overall I’m happy with the new design. There’s still some bits I need to tidy up but it seems to be going well so far.