Optimisation A/A
It’s been a while since I made any updates to the site. Lockdown has taken it’s toll to some extent – on a personal level the Coronavirus has brought with it some sad news, some stressful situations, and although far … Read more
Dev diary
Trip report from the future
I didn’t expect to be writing this trip report exactly two weeks before I’d even left the country, but here we are. Foreign Office advice and airlines pulling out of flying to my destination mean that my next trip isn’t … Read more
Taxonomic diagrams
I’ve been trying to work out a way to automatically generate taxonomic species diagrams from my species list. I’ve nearly achieved it, subject to one annoying problem. It’s close enough though, so I’ve put it live anyway. The diagrams can … Read more
Species List filters
The species list has been further improved to accommodate the inclusion of kingdoms other than the previous singular ‘animalia’ kingdom. Previously there were two methods of filtering by country. The first was using a drop-down menu, which has now been … Read more
Species list – kingdoms
After many years of faithfully adding new species onto my list, I’ve finally decided to start looking beyond the single animalia domain, and including species from other domains. Animalia will continue to be my main focus (by a long way), … Read more
Accessibility tools
After receiving feedback on another website I manage that one or two people were having trouble reading the site due to font size and (lack of) contrast, I implemented some options to allow people to alter the text size, view … Read more
Changes to mobile
Prior to today, all the news pages displayed a sliding panel which showed the five most recent articles within the respective news category/categories. I’ve reduced this to just the single most recent post to lessen repetition and also to remove … Read more
Background refresh
I’ve given the background/surround image a refresh. It’s larger, more vibrant, and it caters to much larger monitors than the previous version. This screenshot is taken at a resolution of 2560 x 1600. The site footer has also been tidied … Read more
Cosmetic (mostly) changes
I’ve made a number of mostly cosmetic changes throughout the site. The most obvious change is most evident when viewing the site on a desktop computer, as above. I might make up a few different surrounds and have them display … Read more
Gallery sorting
Despite my previous post and the claim that I wouldn’t make any more changes to the site for a while, I’m stuck at home for a bit so I thought I’d take the opportunity to improve the gallery options a … Read more
Screen sizes
In what is probably the last update to this section for a while (unless anything breaks!), I’ve made some changes to the way the site handles different screen sizes. It’s already coped pretty well with any size device, but I’ve … Read more