Early Spring Cleaning
Posted on February 20, 2024
Hi hello, I have some site updates to share with y'all:
- New site theme! I switched from my own custom theme to Everforest. It's actually pretty easy for me to swap around themes via css so I think I will look into reimplementing a style switcher again. I just wanted something greener and softer than my usual color scheme.
- Tags! Both art pieces and blog posts now have tags mainly to make stuff easier to find until I figure out how I want to handle site-wide searching. I'm going through my art (again) and adding tags but new stuff will already have them.
- The character directory is up and running! A few of our sonas have been added already and I'll be slowly working on adding the rest in over time. I ended up splitting the project in half so I'll start working on full profile pages later. I want to take my time with those since I want to make a layout I'm satisfied with.
- Optimization! I've made a bunch of little changes to make things run a bit more smoothly around here. The biggest one being a change in hosting (from Digital Ocean to Hetzner) with a better server and some optimization by cleaning up bits of code around the site. Eventually I want to optimize the images on this site and generate thumbnails, since I think that's the last big thing that will slow down the site for most people.
Art
I've been making a lot of progress on my art backlog, but there's some smaller new stuff too that I've made. I think I might be slowly coming out of that art funk I've been in! Also I'm working on an art-only rss feed, I just have to figure out the best way to format it.