New Look For Website

You've probably noticed that the site has gone through a makeover in time for the New Year. It's largely been driven by the move to Moveable Type as the engine behind the site, but I've taken the opportunity to add a few new features as well, including category archives, a better search engine, and listings of recent entries. As the layout for the various pages is now driven by CSS, they work well with mobile devices such as P800s and iPAQs, and I've stripped out a lot of unneccessary images which means faster download times.

Although the URL format for pages has changed, I've kept all the old copies of pages up, so that the links through from Google still work; in addition, for the most popular pages (and the RSS feed), I've put in place server redirects through to the current versions.

If you subscribe to the site via a RSS Newsreader, be sure to change the URL for the feed to http://www.rittman.net/index.rdf. I've put a redirect in place for the old RSS URL but it'd be best to change your settings if possible.

Another new feature is the ability to leave comments and feedback (and yes, I've installed the 'comment spam' plugin...) which should be interesting. I've tried to ensure everything that worked in the previous version of the site still works now, but if there are any usability issues, or areas that could be improved, drop me a line.