There have been a few changes to the site recently, some small and behind the scenes, and some quite big.

The first major thing to mention is that compatibility with the demon that is IE6 has hopefully been fixed (read about how much I hate this browser here). As a result, however, I have had to use some invalid code to ‘fix’ this ‘problem’ resulting in a no longer standards compliant CSS. Still validates XHTML though, so all is not lost!

Oh, and if anyone knows a better way to implement “word-wrap: break-word” that validates, it would be appreciated!

Other major changes include the trial of a different format forum that integrates a bit better with the whole theme of this site. The old one still exists here but won’t be linked directly from the home page any longer.

The new forum, accessible from the link to your right, is tightly integrated with the whole layout of this site and is still quite simple to use. The addition of the new forum has brought about some changes in the way of registering and user accounts by tying it to the main site.

You do not need to officially register an account to post comments on topics etc within the blog, but if you register to use the forum, you can use the same login details to comment on posts (does that make sense?!) You can log in/view your profile page/logout/register using the links towards the bottom of the menu —>

The smaller changes that I’ve made: inclusion of a post view counter, just for pretty stats really. Shows which posts are popular, and which posts are not so… Also, recently added a “Who’s Online?” feature so you can see how many users are currently browsing the site. Again, see the menu link at the bottom.

And last but not least, the site is now listed in the Technorati database and thanks to me remembering to create search engine friendly page titles (I’m such a jackass), it’s beginning to list quite high in various Google searches.

Thats all for now, move along people, nothing to see here….