As I’ve mentioned several times before, pretty much everything I do is perpetual beta. What that means in practice is that I’m always looking to make things better – including this blog!

The three subtle changes I’ve made are:

• Menu text replaced with icons (it was a bit text-heavy)
• Slide-down posts replaced with links to permalinks (to speed-up page loading and encourage commenting)
• Addition of WordPress icon and sparkline (mini-graph) to footer* (looks cool!)

You can see a quick before and after below.

Before:

After:

The icons, in case you’re wondering, can be found here. They may be used ‘without attribution’ for personal and commercial projects.

Update: I’ve added ‘tooltips’ (using this) at the request of some who found the icons needed explaining. Thanks for the feedback!

*I’ll explain how I did this next week. It’s easy but took some researching…