EE: Further updates
Over the last couple of weeks I was busy working on the site. Most of the changes took place in the background - namely by optimizing the use of templates, configuring caching behavior etc. - maybe you have already noticed a slight increase performance wise. Anyway there were also some more obvious improvements, I wanna talk about.
Search
As mentioned in my previous post I still had to work on the search functionality. Originally I intended to implement the same live search functionality as I used on the old site - but somehow I didn’t manage to do so up till now. I still have to have a closer look at EE’s search module. Anyway because I’m aware of the importance of search - especially in connection with blogging - I implemented a first basic variant. So enjoy :)
Contrast
When I released the first version of the new “Dark” skin, some of you mentioned that it was a bit too… well dark respectively that the the contrast was a bit low. I guess this was primarily true for those of you don’t using antialiased fonts. In this case I must admit that contrast was really damn low. So increasing the contrast was another task I worked on. Let me know what you think.
In addition I also refined the about section, added some links to recommended books and removed Google ads. Actually I was forced to remove them, since Google suspended my account. According to them I had a couple of “illegal” clicks, meaning that people clicked the ads several times or whatever. To be honest I can’t really imagine that, since the click-through-rate decreased significantly in the last months. Anyway I don’t really care about it and now you guys once again can enjoy an ad-free site :)
