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Finally…after an incredibly busy period in my life I have managed to find some time to design and develop the next installment of quirksmode.co.uk. Aside from the new CSS3 effects, Drop Down Menu and a couple of other visual tweaks, aesthetically not too much has changed, this was more about improving what was under the hood.

The HTML, CSS and JS have all been tightened up and the pages are now a lot more lightweight and load much faster. I am proud to say that the biggest addition …

Here’s all 27 WordPress plugins that I use on Quirksmode.

AJAX Calendar by John Godley — A version of the WordPress calendar that uses AJAX to allow the user to step through the months without updating the page. Additionally, a click on the ‘expand’ link shows all the posts within that month, inside the calendar. Caching of content can be enabled to increase speed.
AStickyPostOrderER by AndreSC — AStickyPostOrderER lets you customize the order in which …

Phase one of Quirksmode is finally complete! It’s been quite a journey. I always find that the hardest work you undertake as a designer is when it’s for yourself. Why it is so hard I am not 100% sure because there are no strict deadlines or sudden changes to keep you on your toes.

Perhaps it’s the simple fact that you will never be happy with the end result and this is why I have decided to name this first release “Phase one”, with lots more improvements and features to soon …