Unless you’re reading us in an RSS reader, you’ve probably noticed the drastic change in the site’s appearance. We’ve updated the entire layout of the site in order to reduce clutter and make it simpler to navigate our archives. Working so extensively with the guts of the site, of course, can acclimate one too much with the look and feel of everything, so if any of you visitors have any comments or suggestions we’d love to hear them.
Much gratitude is owed to Scott Wallick, who designed the mind-bogglingly awesome WordPress theme we’re using here, blogtxt. We found it in a top 10 WordPress themes listing and after dealing with the theme both on the appearance-side and the coding-side, I can say the top 10 listing was more than merited. Thanks to Scott for making a visually appealing theme written in intuitive code that was easy for me to modify for the site. Scott’s specialty is the creation of elegant, minimalist WordPress themes and he has our hearty recommendation to any WordPress owners interested in that kind of look.
Also, thanks to Steve at DeGraeve.com who hosts the nifty Favicon Generator that created our shiny new favicon.
The newest component of our blog, which really isn’t a *part* of the blog, per se, is our Twitter feed, which you can see on the sidebar of our homepage, or directly at our Twitter page. This is one of the biggest content-creating changes we’ve made since we’ve gone on hiatus – for links that come up quickly or don’t merit the scrutiny of a whole post, we’ll post them there.
Also, a note for our readers who speak or are learning Mandarin or Uyghur: when we translate either of these languages into English, whenever feasible we’ll include the original language in the title attribute of the translated text. What that means is, when you hover your mouse over the English text, the original text should appear in the browser in a small pop-up that you see when, for example, you’re looking at the alt text of an image. Hover your mouse over the quotes below and you should see the same text in Uyghur or Chinese appear in your browser.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 35. Citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.
We hope that with quick access to the text in the original language, readers can find the exact wording if they desire and also offer criticisms and corrections for inaccurate translations. Please let us know if this functionality isn’t working for you.
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