{"id":5210,"date":"2015-10-26T16:38:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:48:03","slug":"site-news-new-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/26\/site-news-new-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Site News: New Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5807,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/22487763911&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190114175914\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/22487763911\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 15:40:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-01 01:51:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-07 21:37:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-19 05:31:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-26 07:15:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 11:59:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 17:11:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 20:26:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 08:57:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 06:27:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 01:27:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 03:53:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 03:53:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Golf R Meetup - 2015, Berkshires, MA - VW Vortex&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/22487763911\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Golf R Meetup - 2015, Berkshires, MA - VW Vortex\"  width=\"640\"  height=\"427\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5776\/22487763911_e78b7b33d9_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, I did a test of a new design on my beer blog. I heard from a dozen people over email, text, etc that said they really liked it. While the design is not in its final form, this iteration is at a place where I don\u2019t mind replicating it to the main blog. The main blog gets the majority of my server traffic so I take changes quite seriously. There are more things I want to do like add more contextual links at the bottom of page and add support for wide photo posts. The thing is, most of the stuff I\u2019d like to add slows the page down. If I were to embed Flickr or Instagram widgets on my beer blog, it adds additional Javascript calls and slows the site down.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, my photo posts here like the recent drive with a few other car-people last week does request data from Flickr which is why I\u2019m going to utilize \u201cRead More\u201d links on all posts that have more than 2-3 photos. This will allow people who browse directly to my blog to opt-in to clicking \u201cRead More\u201d which will trigger the process of calling a dozen photos from Flickr. Note these are just basic IMG HTML tags, no Javascript is being used but it still takes time. If you\u2019re an RSS Subscriber, you\u2019ll get full-posts including photos in your feed. I\u2019m not selling ads so I have no incentive to drive people to my website directly. It\u2019s a waste of your time.<\/p>\n<p>Why not store these photos myself? I don\u2019t see any reason to use my bandwidth when Yahoo is giving me all of theirs for free. I never plan on cancelling Flickr Pro so don\u2019t see an issue and one day, when Flickr is no more I\u2019ll just have to put in a ton of work to fix the issue. That likelihood is very slim so it\u2019s just a calculated risk I chose to take up a few years back.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is taking up 1.92 megabytes and the beer blog is taking 2.5 megabytes of data to load. The main culprit is photos that are hot linked to Flickr.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enjoy the new lightweight website and let me know if you have any feedback. Of course, since this blog and my beer blog have comments permanently removed, you\u2019l have to use email if you want to reach me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>PS: I still have a huge interest in Photo a Day style blogging and I\u2019d like to eventually setup some sub-domain w\/ a WordPress installation to handle this. The only issue is, most off-the-shelf WordPress themes don\u2019t cover everything. I want a wide 1400 pixel canvas without any border, just black or white and the ability for the user to scroll infinitely without any Flash and they can view Geo-tag with a link that resolves a map call to Google\u2019s API and another section that displays EXIF data. If anyone knows of a solution for something that\u2019s very lightweight and would allow me to showcase a photo every day, I\u2019m all ears.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PPS: I also have been toying with the idea of a newsletter for longer articles, guides and opinions that would get published to this site 6 weeks after newsletter subscribers get it. A $1 a month donation would get you access to the newsletter. With the conversion rate around 1% of readers opting to do this, I wouldn\u2019t make a lot of\u00a0money but it would help off-set the costs I spend on hosting. I\u2019m thinking about it, not really sure if I will go through with it. We\u2019ll see.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks ago, I did a test of a new design on my beer blog. 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