Taking out the trash.
- The jQuery scroll to top/bottom animation was ditched. I couldn’t make it work on mobile the way it does on normal OS browsers. I’d rather have a consistent experience, cross-device, than a fancy-pants experience on only half of them.
- The “Scroll to Top” button that appears on the right was also cut out for the same reasons. Now I just have a simple button in the footer to hop up to the browser top.
- Mostly little changes/additions to the UI, the most obvious were the large blocky page-level navigation type of things. They look good in the mobile version and are a lot easier to see and tap. It doesn’t hurt the desktop experience either. Gently “guiding” user with obvious UI can be a good idea.
- No more side scroll on mobile! Both on landscape and portrait orientations. The Adsense ads were causing it and it bugged me to no end. Now they are mobile-sized. There is side-scrolling if I embed some videos but I don’t have the inclination to regression fix all of that.
- I’ve had them for a while, but I don’t think I mentioned the social media icons you see in the footer. They were modified a bit from the original, which were taken from Pink Mustache, a design site whose ill-conceived name will not live past the two awful trends it references. The vector art on there can’t be beat with a stick, though.
- For some reason WordPress blanked out my 404 page, so I decided to make error pages a step back, at the server level, using the .htaccess file. Go ahead, try it out. You receive my undying admiration if you understand the reference there.
- There was a seventh thing I wanted to mention but I forget what it was. Go have a beer!
* Not really “hot on the heels”. That last post was weeks ago, which is ancient history in Internet chronology.