Toni Westbrook dot Com

The Joy of Computer Science and Engineering

I’m becoming more and more active on this blog - I get quite a bit of enjoyment from doing it. I hope you guys enjoy reading it too. Along with the more frequent posting, I want to ramp up putting some more tutorials on here, but I wanted to make things a little more user friendly first.

Visuals

I made the margins slightly larger and made the text a big larger as well - it’s not a huge difference, but it does make reading articles a little easier. Alongside getting rid of the large left-hand ad last week, I think this has helped a lot.

Recent Posts

I also redid the recent posts list a bit. It used to list 3 over in the side bar - now it lists 5 on the main page, with an easy link that gives an abbreviated view of all posts, paginated. This also allowed me to move categories up in the side bar and organize them a bit better.

Feel free to shoot me a note if there’s anything else you’d like to see on the site. Thanks!

I took the large ad in the upper left hand corner of my posts out. It irritated me looking at it whenever I’d read any posts, so I imagine it probably did the same for other people too. Maybe it generated a few clicks, but it’s not worth it, my primary concern is that people are actually able to read the posts easily.

Hi All -

I made a few updates to the site to hopefully make things a little more informative/usable. I’ve added the following:

1. A comment subscription plugin, so when you leave a comment, you can sign up to be notified via email if anyone else comments (either a response from me or other users commenting). These comment subscriptions can be managed and removed if desired. I did this as there is no real way right now of knowing if someone replied to your comment without constantly checking back at the site.
2. A project page for my Drupal z-machine project, Gruepal. It describes the project so far, goals, and has links to the devlog.
3. A link on the main page that shows all posts, newest first. This is a shortcut from going to each month’s archive.

As always, thanks for reading, I hope I’ve provided some helpful information/entertainment through my posts over the past year.