New Layout on the Way »
I've been working on a new site design for a while now, and finally seem to be getting things to come together. Over the next few days, you should start seeing some new layouts on the pages as you browse the blog. Of course, if you're reading via RSS, you likely won't notice a thing.
The first piece of the site to get the new layout is the search result form. This wasn't entirely intentional, but I started using it in conjunction with the test layouts, and I wanted them to look the same. Rather than hacking at it to allow a test search result form, I just decided to take the plunge.
One of the things you'll notice is that there are a lot more XML buttons around. I've finally finished working on the search.pm module, so I can provide dynamic feeds of each individual entry. This is useful as it allows you to subscribe to a single entry in order to keep up on the comments for that entry and only that entry.
Too many times, I've found myself wanting to keep up on stories, but have been unable to find the time to keep visiting the site. Hopefully this will help that and allow conversations to flourish because everyone can keep up. The links to these feeds are somewhat sporadic for now, but you'll see them popping up as I continue to rollout the new design. In the meantime, if you are looking to subscribe to a particular entry so you can monitor its progress, let me know and I'll get you the URL.
In addition, I've added some options to the search. The basic search is still the same, but when you get to the search results page, you'll see a few checkboxes to control your next search. You are able to search on partial words (default is full words only), to match the case (default is case-insensitive), submit regular expressions in the search (good luck) and even have your results returned to you in an RSS 2.0 layout so that you can subscribe to the results.
Enjoy, and please let me know if you run into any problems!
