I spent some time working on the site this weekend, including adding a new visual design and the ability to filter posts by content type (see the little ‘audio’ and ‘text’ buttons above). Visual updates include:
Webfonts! I grabbed League Gothic and Sorts Mill Goudy from the League of Movable Type and converted them for the web using FontSquirrel.
CSS3 techniques, including text-shadow for the header, border-radius for the category buttons, and RGBA all over the place.
Also, the whole thing’s orange.
Adding the content type filtering turned out to be a little bit tricky, just based on the way I set up the rendering system. I think it will be cool, though — I added per-type ATOM feeds, and I’m hoping to be able to serve up the audio feed as a podcast once I figure out the nuances of iTunes and get much better at playing piano.
Having this whole site in a git repo has made both posting to and customizing the site much more enjoyable than having to go through a web interface. I WILL NEVER GO BACK.