Apart from a few small visual tweaks here and there, there’s not been much worth mentioning here. Whenever I make any changes, I keep check on whether there’s any resulting…

A few design changes:1. The sidebar on the right-hand side of all pages of the website has been redesigned. The recent news section now includes thumbnails extracted from the news…

I’ve made some minor changes to the species list. The column that displays the class, order and family to which a species belongs now renders the taxonomic groupings as hyperlinks,…

On at least one previous occasion in this dev diary, I’ve referred to a bug in the species list that I’d managed to convince myself was a bug in Google…

I’ve added some more new functionality to the species list. Firstly, it is possible to completely hide the thumbnails, or to shrink them so that they don’t make the page…

I’ve made a very small tweak to the species list. It is now possible to choose to hide or show thumbnails for each species. The option is not currently persistent…

When I decided to re-write this site, the actual appearance of it took a bit of a back seat while I worked out the functionality. Colours, fonts, backgrounds, gradients, etc…

I’ve made some changes to the species list to make it more responsive to smaller devices. I think the standard view of the list is ok as it is really….

I actually enjoy building websites, especially when they present challenges and problems to solve along the way. Once the building is done though, other less enjoyable tasks need doing… making…