I don’t usually post every time I make a tweak to my blog, but I’ve recently made a series of tweaks. I want to explain why these tweaks make the blog better, but mainly why you need to incorporate them into your blog or next design.
I’d like to begin by showing you the original 1.0 mockup of tplack.com.
Original Mockup (tplack.com v1.0)
As you can see, the overall structure of the website really has not changed by a lot.
4 Month Release - v1.5
In the previous version of the Tyler Plack Blog that was running for about 4 months, there were several key elements missing. A few problems with what I’ve dubbed “The 4 Months Release” (only because it was running for 4 months). The problems with this release were:
-Comments were not properly displaying gravatar
-Rollover icons for social media did not work
-Search form is missing
-No meta tags, meta description, or SEO
-Missing a proper sidebar (this one was just a <?php include(“sidebar.php”); ?>, so it was extremely unscale-able)
-Several broken links
Because of all of these missing “ingredients”, I have released tplack.com version 2. If you have any other problems, contact me on that contact form that was missing for ages, or leave a comment below.
And for those of you who go to tplack.com and it looks nothing like those mockups, here is the current day version of tplack.com.
Current Day (tplack.com v2.0)
I hope I’ve interested you with some insight to the inner workings of my blog.
