Kirkbride Buildings Blog

March 10th, 2008

Site Update

So I’ve changed the site’s look a little. It’s not an earth-shattering transformation, but I think it’s a decent improvement. If you notice anything strange, please let me know. You can comment here or send me an email.

I could go into all the details of the design changes, but I don’t want to bore anyone. I’ll just list off the most significant content updates which are:

1) A new slideshow on the home page

2) A little more information and a few more pictures on the Kirkbride biography page

3) I decided to keep the existing transcription of Kirkbride’s book available and improved the interface a bit.

4) And I finally posted a “complete” list of Kirkbride buildings on the buildings page. That’s as complete a list as I’m comfortable posting right now. I’m sure there are, or were, at least a few more. Hopefully I can now look forward to emails telling me I “missed” one instead of dreading them. I also hope this prevents people from thinking the Kirkbrides featured here are the only ones out there.

I’ll be making more updates over the next few weeks, including some additions to the buildings pages. I’m aiming to visit some “new” places over the spring and summer too. I recently warmed up to the idea of making this more of a community-based project and put out some feelers to see if anyone wanted to contribute pictures. That was met with a pretty underwhelming response, so I’ve abandoned the idea. I’m happy with being responsible for all the content, but it’s difficult to get access and travel to all these buildings. Over time though I should be able to make some progress.

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Discussion

  1. John March 16, 2008, 10:36 am

    I think the new design is great.

    Nice work.

  2. Ethan March 16, 2008, 11:34 am

    Thank you.

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