New Growth at the Hairy Museum
2:38 pm
Repeat visitors to the HMNH might notice that things are looking a little different around here. This latest redesign was inspired by several factors, including:
- Seeing how badly I’d botched the layout in certain browsers (IE/Mac, especially)
- Noticing how the home page, with its giant header logo, was rendered on a 15″ screen
- And finding that the new color scheme of that other HMNH was getting a little too close for comfort.
The biggest impetus, however, was the desire to set up some sort of weblog on the front page. Having one of those ‘personal publishing platforms’ (in this case, the not-too-obfuscatory WordPress) should make it easier to post quick snippets about site updates, natural history news, and other assorted bits of fuzz that might benefit from the Hairy Museum treatment. With a bit of determination, that should translate into more interesting tidbits for the faithful HMNH patron, and easier ways for the casual visitor to tell when the site is updated (such as the fancy new RSS link to the left).
Rest assured that all this newfangled fooferaw won’t turn the HMNH into just another blog. The Hairy Museum of Natural History was conceived as an institution, and an institution it will remain, with all the Galleries, Libraries, and Goofy Dinosaurs presented to our visitors in all their painstakingly hand-crafted glory. This is just a way for me to keep the Museum a bit more fresh in between the big projects that take more time to update than they should.
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