Rob Larsen

Just a quick layout update here. The look is changed*, but more important to me are the adjustments I made to the source code itself and to the source order.

With the source order, I moved the sidebar that used to be over to the left way down in the source order- it used to sit at the very top of the source order. Now the first stuff that spiders (and users with screen readers) see is pure content. Those of you with the web developer toolbar can turn off styles to see the naked goodness of the site now. It'll be interesting to see if the change enhances my search engine placement at all. Of course, I know the site is now a better, cleaner, experience for people browsing with screen readers and with text browsers, so that's a bonus whatever Google thinks about my changes.

*honestly, this has been a to-do list item for something like six months. When I moved over to WordPress as part of the site relaunch I didn't put as much effort as I could have into the theme. As time went on and I started to really enjoy posting on the blog again, the shortcuts I'd made with the layout and with the blog markup started to drive me a little batty. Thankfully I was able to steal some time tonight to start in on getting this section straightened out.

More to come as the days go by

It's true.

Make with the clicking:

Innocentive

If you're asking, "Who?"

From their About Us page:

"Founded in 2001, InnoCentive connects companies, academic institutions, and non-profit organizations, all hungry for breakthrough innovation, with a global network of more than 125,000 of the world's brightest minds on the world's first Open Innovation Marketplace™."

I did HTML, CSS, some JavaScript and a WordPress theme/configuration for their PR/News section. I think the site looks pretty good, personally

WordPress 2.1 has dropped. I've downloaded it already and will be playing around with it a little bit over the next couple of days. I'm interested in seeing all the Ajax-y goodness that they promise. I've already poked at the the comments enhancements a little bit- they're pretty cool.
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