Hope everyone is having a good break. Since it’s Winter Break, I’m playing around with changing the look of the site. I tend to favor dead-simple themes and layouts. My previous theme, despite its simplicity, wasn’t simple enough for me. So I’m playing around with this one. Here’s a summary of of some other changes.
- The site now is now structured more like a professional page with the blog as a secondary page. I’ve seen instances of other philosophers who go for this model, and I really like it (e.g. John Basl and Jonathan Ichikawa).
- On that note – my blog (Wide Scope) is now accessible via a page link at the top, but the change doesn’t effect the permalinks. So if you’ve linked to a blog post in the past, there’s no need to change links or anything like that.
- I’ve added Twitter and Facebook share buttons. These have become more dominant in the last year than Digg and Reddit buttons, and the philosophical/academic/ed tech community is much more tapped into those networks than they are Digg and Reddit. If you have your own WordPress install, I recommend the “Digg Digg” plugin if you want to ad Twitter and Facebook buttons to your site.
The Philosophy Journal Survey Page is still in the same working order. I hope to start tweaking the layout of that page with a custom page template soon, and this will enable me to offer more features/functionality. Stay tuned for that. If you’ve requested a journal be added and don’t see it yet, don’t worry – they’ll be added soon.
It looks sharp.
The new design and layout are both nice improvements. Good move!