Welcome to the dazzl blog - it is currently in development.
It works as it should in Firefox, IE7, Opera 9 (Windows), Safari (Windows beta) and Epiphany. It seems to be working reasonably well in IE 6. It should also work reasonably in IE5 and IE5.5, although certain aspects of the design have been compromised.
I have tried to make the layout as flexible as possible. It should be able to cope with at least 2 increases in text size and it should adjust to fit into any browser window size.
I've used microformats in the html markup. I've used hatom for each post and hreview for the music and book reviews at the side.
Rails was used to implement a simple blogging engine which allows me to add new pages and make blog posts. It utilises the markdown markup language to make editing pages simple and straightforward. Now I need to get busy writing some posts.
I plan to write about using Ubuntu for web development, learning to program in Ruby and lots of other web-related stuff.
The site is being tested live at the moment. Future plans include:
- Page caching to speed things up
- Introduce some subtle Ajax
- Comments for blog posts
- RSS feeds
- A search bar
- Dynamic reviews of books and music in the sidebar (they are static at the moment)
