The folks at ars technica has been busy of late. Just before January 25th they cut over a new look. I had thought something was different besides the glitz that is. They have made some subtle changes that make the page load faster and, in my not so humble opinion, look nicer.
Thankfully ars has no problem of seeing themselves as news and has a nice writeup about the changes. "Welcome to Ars Technica v5.0!" highlights these changes. Sure they are nothing earth shattering but it is nice to see another news site join the rest of the web world. I did make sure to chagne it to the "Bring back the black" back ground. As you can see from my site I tend to favor light text on dark background. However I should really look at adding multiple style sheets to the site...
I digress. Some of the cool bits from the article is getting an idea of the hardware/OS they run. Their servers run VMware with clustered Debian guest hosts. I find this interesting if their MySQL is also on the guest host as my experience has been that MySQL and VMWare can be a mixed performance bag.
Some other nice changes are the layout and categorizing they are doing with the articles. It is now a little more uniform and avoids the category black hole of an article that fits two categories but only shows up in one.
Kudo's to you all at Ars.
Thankfully ars has no problem of seeing themselves as news and has a nice writeup about the changes. "Welcome to Ars Technica v5.0!" highlights these changes. Sure they are nothing earth shattering but it is nice to see another news site join the rest of the web world. I did make sure to chagne it to the "Bring back the black" back ground. As you can see from my site I tend to favor light text on dark background. However I should really look at adding multiple style sheets to the site...
I digress. Some of the cool bits from the article is getting an idea of the hardware/OS they run. Their servers run VMware with clustered Debian guest hosts. I find this interesting if their MySQL is also on the guest host as my experience has been that MySQL and VMWare can be a mixed performance bag.
Some other nice changes are the layout and categorizing they are doing with the articles. It is now a little more uniform and avoids the category black hole of an article that fits two categories but only shows up in one.
Kudo's to you all at Ars.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment