Posts tagged with: site-updates

For today’s IndieWeb Create Day, I finally updated the layout on my article permalinks. Several years ago, I started updating non-homepage pages to use a streamlined template with a smaller header logo and navigation links beside it. I kept putting off the article permalinks because a lot of messy, custom code piled up in it over the years. The end visual result is not a huge difference, but it will make maintenance a lot easier going forward.

I improved some of the layout in the article footer while I was at it. I moved my author card to the very bottom of the page, instead of putting it between the article footer and responses. That let me remove the links to jump to the response, which was kind of a weird experience before. I also set the metadata (published date, tags, syndication links) to be right-aligned, matching the layout on the rest of my posts.

Here is what it looks like now:

Contrasted with how it looked before:

I made a small update on my homepage. The photos section (screenshot below) previously was not showing some of the meta information like the syndication links. I added those along with the rest of the h-entry markup so that Bridgy will find the syndication links and send back responses from Bluesky.

I gave Bridgy a nudge to scrape my homepage again and it quickly started sending the responses back to the original post. This IndieWeb stuff really seems like magic, sometimes!

I updated my site to use the Libravatar CDN for avatars. If one isn't found, it will still fallback to Gravatar, so it should be seamless for commenters. I also updated the default icon to identicons, so people without avatars will get a nifty geometric image instead of the anonymous silhouette.

My privacy policy is updated with this information too.