After months of procrastination, personal problems, and a tight schedule, the new MexiJew.com version 2.0 has been completed. It took a lot of work, and along with the design changes, there’s going to be a change in the content you’ll find here. Here’s an outline of the changes.
First, and most easy to recognize, this site has a new design. My idea for this design was to have a more mainstream “blog” design, but adhere to XHTML and CSS standards. What that means in laymen’s terms is that this site is optimized to be viewable on any web browser. All pages on the site will validate as having valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, and valid CSS (To check if this page is valid, click on the “Valid XHTML” and “Valid CSS” icons at the bottom of this page.). Browsers that aren’t “standards compliant” will see a dull, flat, and flavorless version, missing the layout and text style, and with a message informing them that they need to download a standards compliant browser, such as Mozilla, or IE 6.0.
No more will you have to squint to see the text of my rants on that blue background. The font is bigger, and easier to ready. The colors of the overall design are easier on the eyes, and are now easier to read for people who are colorblind (see Section 508 guidelines for more information on website designing for accessibility).
Next, the rants are going to be different. I’m going to attempt to clean up my colorful use of vulgarities, and tone down my opinions on things that people who’ve visited this blog off and on have major complaints about. Valid complaints, that is. I’m not going to just change my opinions, mind you. However, if you contact me with a valid complaint, I’ll give consideration to adjusting my viewpoint.
The rants may also be more technical in nature. I’m planning on writing a few articles about designing websites using web standards, such as CSS, XHTML, and XML.
The menu, located to the right of this text, has a neat little feature on it. If you click the title of the menu (“Here you are”, “There you go”, et al…), the menu will minimize. Click the title again, and voila! Maximized! Cool, huh? Just a little DHTML trick I learned a while ago.
Something you can’t see is the new user tracking system I have setup on the site. I am now recording and logging every possible piece of information about every single person that comes to this site. While you may be alarmed and pissed about this, let me tell you that if you go to Google.com, Amazon.com, Wired.com, WashingtonPost.com, and 99% of all the other major websites, you are already having this information watched, traced, recorded, and used to track demographics and setup spam specifically meant for you. MexiJew.com will never use your information to spam you, or popup ads on your screen. I am only logging this information for the purpose of catching potential problems before they become real problems.
So, that’s it. Go. Explore. Enjoy. Let me know what you think of the new site by clicking on the “Contact Me” link to the right, in the “Here you are” menu.
