21 Dec 2025
Blog Changes
The few regular readers I still have may have noticed some – albeit minor – changes to the blog. I would really like to give it a more modern look, but all the new templates don’t accept my sidebar which is not date or keyword based, but more like a table of contents. And it is very important for the blog, so I’ll stick to the old template where I can hand-code everything. I only tried to make it look a bit cleaner and lighter.
The other point I wanted to change is the long posts you’ll have to scroll past to find the next one. New templates usually take care of that, but poor me found only one solution: Go to every blasted post and insert the ‚Read More‘ code by hand. I had close to 500 posts, since I wrote more but shorter posts during the first years of my 20 years of blogging. But the result looks better and easier to navigate.
Winter sunset (seen from my balcony)
I took the chance to delete some posts that were not conveying any information, and merge a number of shorter posts about the same topic, overall bringing the total amount of under 400. Which is still a lot, and some posts are in need of a rewrite, and some older photos are in need of editing.
I did a bit of that during the cleanup process, but there are more posts to which I should go back and edit photos and text. If the changes are significant, I will repost those as new posts.
The few regular readers I still have may have noticed some – albeit minor – changes to the blog. I would really like to give it a more modern look, but all the new templates don’t accept my sidebar which is not date or keyword based, but more like a table of contents. And it is very important for the blog, so I’ll stick to the old template where I can hand-code everything. I only tried to make it look a bit cleaner and lighter.
The other point I wanted to change is the long posts you’ll have to scroll past to find the next one. New templates usually take care of that, but poor me found only one solution: Go to every blasted post and insert the ‚Read More‘ code by hand. I had close to 500 posts, since I wrote more but shorter posts during the first years of my 20 years of blogging. But the result looks better and easier to navigate.
I took the chance to delete some posts that were not conveying any information, and merge a number of shorter posts about the same topic, overall bringing the total amount of under 400. Which is still a lot, and some posts are in need of a rewrite, and some older photos are in need of editing.
I did a bit of that during the cleanup process, but there are more posts to which I should go back and edit photos and text. If the changes are significant, I will repost those as new posts.
