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Somewhat significant sitewide changes

Filed under: Site management by Hari
Posted on Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 14:04 IST (last updated: Fri, Jul 10, 2015 @ 14:37 IST)

There are a few sitewide changes that I want to highlight. First of all, the entire website is now converted to HTML 5. This overhaul also allowed me to clean the site structure and fix a few bugs in the HTML code which caused some stray invalid links.

Secondly the articles wiki powered by Pmwiki is gone. In hindsight, that section of the site has always caused me some headache. I am now using my simple home-cooked PHP CMS to display the articles section (the same CMS which I originally created for harishankar.org reviews site almost a decade ago, when my blog was still located at hari.literaryforums.org).

Thirdly I have simplified the site design by making the stylesheet common to all parts of the site. This will help me make site-wide design changes with minimal effort in the future.

I feel that overall the changes are worth it. In future, I may consolidate my website even further by designing a common platform for all sections. But that is a long way off, yet, since it will involve some amount of programming.

Here's a screenshot of the older design of this website for posterity:

Harishankar.org older theme

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