After being online for only a few short days, I started to really hate the design of this website. It was too dark or something. I wanted it to feel more open and easy-going and it just plain didn't. I promised to stop messing with it for a while now though. I also added "Gravatar":http://gravatar.com integration for comments. A Gravatar is a "globally recognizable avatar". It's a central server for avatars. My website calls out to the Gravatar server and looks a commenter up by their email address. If they've registered with Gravatar, their photo will be returned and placed neatly next to their comment. If they haven't registered they'll get an ugly Gravatar logo next to their comment. Neat, huh? Registering is easy and fast, and more and more sites are starting to use the service. So "go register":http://en.gravatar.com/. =more= Plugging Gravatar into Rails was unbelievably simple. I just grabbed the "Gravatar plugin":http://gravatarplugin.rubyforge.org. And wrote this line where the picture should go:<pre> <%= gravatar_for comment.email %> </pre> and BLAM. Hello Gravatar! h3. Features still to add to site: * Syntax highlighting for code. * Different formatting for different entry types. (Posts, Quotes, Links) * Some kind of unnecessary javascript effect to impress site-comers. 0 true 2008-04-11T09:29:25-07:00 article false 3 false design-changed-gravatars-added true 2008-04-11T13:52:19-07:00 2009-05-08T07:47:46-07:00