Hi, and welcome to the new FamousPhil website! It isn’t actually all that new, but it is a major revision of my website. This has been coming now for at least the past 5 months because I completely hated the colors that I chose for the overall site theme. I can’t believe that I thought mixing all sorts of colors would even remotely look good. Anyways, I fixed it and I feel that the site looks better.
So what exactly changed?
I changed the color scheme a little bit and this is what you will likely notice the quickest. I decided to go with a traditional blue theme using the same blue that I selected before, but this time with a color guide. For anyone in need of finding colors that go well together, I strongly recommend: http://colorschemedesigner.com/. That site helped me a lot!
In addition, FamousPhil now validates to XHTML Strict 1.0, it used to validate to XHTML Transitional 1.0. This is basically technical language saying that FamousPhil is guaranteed to look the same on all compliant browsers that can display this website. This was very difficult to achieve considering the old website base uses many elements of XHTML transitional that don’t exist in strict. Regardless of the difficulty, I managed to get everything updated and working well 
You may ask why I didn’t choose HTML 5 (I know one person who did), and my reasoning is, its standards aren’t fully established yet and aren’t mainstream enough for my personal preferences.
Finally, the major component that I really wanted to fix for a long time has happened. On my end, FamousPhil now has a real content management system. I wrote a theme for WordPress (thanks to John) and I now use WordPress as my content management system. Doing this has made my life much easier since changing the site has gone from manually editing source code to “drag and drop”. Hopefully I can continue to make my sites easier to manage so I can perhaps find more free time in the future
Thats all for now. I still need to do some blogging on some important issues, but that will come someday in the near future
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