ArsMachina v3
Hi everyone, I've finally finished the first stage of updating the look and feel of the website to use the common stylesheet generated by Ars-Materia. This adds a number of improvements, such as a dark mode, cards, content breakpoints, and some new banner gradients.
Ars-Materia
This conversion aims to make the general look and feel of this website easy to implement elsewhere in different projects. Part of the reason I embarked on this project in the first place of re-writing the CSS used here was that I wanted 1 bundled CSS file to be what's downloaded onto the browser, and also because I was developing another website / application at the time and wanted to implement the styles used in am2, the previous iteration of the website that used WebsiteTemplate. When I started to add styling there, I found that the existing classes were not at all usable in that context, and because I was going to be writing a lot of CSS anyhow, I figured that I might as well rewrite it using SASS.
You can read more about Ars-Materia here.
Beta
While the styles may look nice, I still have some work left to do and some things left to clean up, so you may find some rough edges in a few places, and those will be addressed at some point in the future.
Other improvements
In addition to the styling improvements, I have also made changes elsewhere around the website, including:
- Moving the cow to the bottom of the page on most pages
- Changing the landing page to use the same style buttons as the rest of the website
- Re-adding a links page to other websites
- Fixed the tag and category pages
- Removed some testing tags
- Added styling to some new tags
- Updated Table of Contents
More to come
I'm going to continue making improvements here and there to the website, and might add some new features as well, including searching and displaying posts on the landing page, but we'll see.