A Wild Redesign has Appeared!

You might have noticed some changes in the look and feel of the site. Over the last month I spent time rebuilding my site to hopefully make it look a little nicer.

I had been considering this for a little while, I wanted to improve some of the typography, spacing, and the look and feel.

The impetus to do it now was that I had just finished my media repository and I was going to have to adjust the media pages to pull from the generated JSON rather than the Notion API anyway, so it seemed as good a time as any.

I took advantage of the redesign to clean up older CSS, combine CSS, and remove a lot of code that was either duplicated or extraneous. It was nice to see a bunch of CSS and even some JS files disappear.

New Features

This wasn't just a redesign in that I gave it a new skin. I also added some additional features to my site in the process.

Better Dialogs for My Ratings and Thoughts

On my bookshelf, TV, movies, and video games pages, there are buttons (assuming you have JS enabled) that pop up a dialog with some additional thoughts I have on the movie, TV show, book, or video game. That's still there, but now I make sure to show a little more in the dialog to make it clear which item the thoughts are tied to.

Music Albums Now Clickable

You can now click on the albums on the music page to see more info about the album, including my thoughts if I have any of note.

Filtering

I have added filtering on both my books and video game pages. You can filter the books based on genre as well as fiction/non-fiction. Video games can be filtered by platform, genre, as well as completion status.

Next Steps

The next steps are mostly simple. Keep writing and adding content. Maybe some tweaks here and there.

Also, if you see anything weird, let me know. Definitely possible I missed something or introduced a bug.