Dawned on me the other day that this blog was kind of a pain in the eyes to read. That’s what I get for not taking the time to make my own theme for Wordpress.
What I did was I made most of the fonts on the page black, but this had some negative affects in terms of not being able to read the text on some of the black spots on the page. I’m working on it, I know. Just want to let everyone know I’m aware.
One of the other things that was pretty annoying was the slow page load time when my twitter status is loading. I handled that with some PHP to verify the URL of the page you’re looking at and I also moved the javascript to the very bottom of the site before the end of the body tag. This makes sure that only pages where the twitter status is shown will actually load the javascript AND it also makes sure that the rest of the page loads in a timely manner so you don’t need to wait around for my status if you want to read something else.
Just some usability metrics that I had to handle and I thought I’d mention them. I’ll be doing another article on the PHP used to handle the twitter status probably later on this week.