mleiv.com

Website redesign is like crack for us web developers. Imagine suddenly acquiring a brand-new studio, built precisely to your specifications, and already furnished with all your favorite old things, laid out all feng shui and perfect. This is an especially apt analogy for me, given that I can't even find an old and run-down apartment for myself in this city. But at least my artwork will be housed well. :)

Some notable features of the new mleiv.com:

• Yup, this is MovableType 4. Bye-bye custom CMS... :_(
• I have changed the dates on the artwork to more accurately reflect the date in which it first debuted on the web (rather than the date of my first dated CMS - 10/2005). Note that this is not the same as the creation date (which is noted on the copyright).
• Images now have zoom. Ala deviantArt, all the images are sized to a 500px width/height limit. To see the full size, go to the individual page and click the image to load the larger size (where available).
• Clicking images on index and search pages now leads to the individual page. It just seemed like that is how it should work.
• Polling is now 100% AJAX. This is because MovableType doesn't have a polling plugin (and since I hate PERL, I can't fix this myself). Bad MovableType, Bad! *smacks nose* I will add back other dynamic features in AJAX - like my random links - when I get the chance.
• All previous links should continue working for now - thanks to .htaccess and my damn fine PHP skills. Yay for LAMP!