After nearly a full month of preparations, I’m happy to finally unveil the new look of The France Hopper Network. Personally, I couldn’t stand to look at the old grey any longer. When I designed the initial look, I wanted something I’d be able to look at in the ungodly hours of the night as that was often when I would be working on the site. However, it resulted in a gloomy, boring color scheme. With this new one, I hope it brightens the place up a bit.
Also, with the new UI, one unused (and actually horrendously broken) feature was removed. This featured previously allowed marking up images with annotations. If I find a better plugin for it, I’ll add the feature back. On the bright side, removing the feature also means that all of its broken code has also been removed. As a result, you should get fewer errors now and a slightly faster load time.
Finally, some minor changes were made to the sidebar contents and the footer to match the new color scheme. Please do disregard the stretched out I’m Listening To list. That will automatically correct itself as usual. As always, some backend crap also got messed around with, but that you don’t have to worry about. Enjoy the new theme 😉