Everything old is new again
I moved to Wordpress when I got sick of limitations in an XSLT-based site. I've now moved back to an XSLT-based site due to Wordpress' heavy SQL usage—SourceForge's SQL servers are pretty overloaded, and it was making this site run pretty slow.
It took me a while to finish the transition and there are still a few things I need to iron out, but I think it's ready enough for prime time. It's been a great transition, though. I finally got to rewrite that old theme, using clean HTML and CSS. All the limitations I hated in my old XSLT-based site are gone as well, albeit with a good deal more pre-processing involved.
One of the things I've changed is in how images are scaled: when there isn't enough screen space (such as reducing the width of the screen), they'll all shrink to fit. This was important to me because I've grown to use Windows 7's snapping feature and it's important that sites still work when using only half the screen. This actually revealed a bug in Google Chrome and perhaps other Webkit-based browsers, so hopefully that gets fixed soon.
Another thing I've started trying is to size floating images based on megapixels instead of simply a maximum width/height. This was simple to do and will increase aesthetics by ensuring no images appear abnormally big compared to other ones. So far I like the results.
Now that I'm mostly done with this, I should be able to write a lot more. Those promised resampling articles are coming, I swear!
