ThinkScripter 3.0

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been conspicuously absent both in my posts here and in the forum of late. Well….I’ve been locked in the ThinkScripter laboratory for nearly eight weeks now working on the facelift for the blog and I’m happy to take the wraps off the new design today. This marks the third major site overhaul since I began in January of 2009.

The first iteration was a boilerplate WordPress.com blog with little or no customization. This is a great way to get started publishing content on the internet. Being the tinkerer that I am, I quickly began running into the limitations of the basic free blog. I moved over to a paid server and cobbled together a few custom theme parts to introduce version two. It served me steadfastly until my desire for just that much more control finally got me rolling a few months ago.

Many of the changes are under the hood, so to speak, and rather than add patches to the previous site architecture I just started with a clean slate and built my own theme. I’ve added a dynamic Indicator page, thinkScript syntax highlighting, and skinned the Forum properly just to name a few of the enhancements. In the process I became much more intimate with web architecture, php, css, wordpress, etc and finally feel like the master of my own domain – no pun intended.

As with all major updates I expect to encounter some bugs along the way and would appreciate any tippers if something is acting wonky.

Lastly, it has been a distinct pleasure and honor to bring this site to you and the thinkScript community at large. Thank you all for your kind remarks, encouragement, and donations along the way. Now, time for a cold one!

Your host,
Eric