Upon redesigning this website, I decided I wanted to do a little more with the front page. The first thing that I wanted to accomplish besides a new look was removing entire posts from the front page and just having short snippets of each post so that there would be less scrolling and a reason to view the entry/comments page.

ExpressionEngine has a built in word limiter function that can be used on template tags that produce words. My immediate problem with using the word limiter is that it would cut off paragraphs without closing the paragraph tag. I also show a lot of code within pre tags and those not being closed screwed up the entire page layout.

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Today I decided to update the html of my main page to appear more like the code blog.

Mainly it was adding the background gradient to the top and some new JavaScript. The background CSS was a very simple effect using the html tag AND the body tag for displaying background images.

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