I have only begun to appreciate the intricacies of phone-touch-screen web navigation in the last couple months of carrying one myself, and thus am perhaps a little late to this game. Still, it can be nice to wait long enough that a really elegant solution has time to come along.

That solution is WPTouch, a WordPress them from BraveNewCode that automagically makes my WordPress-powered blog slim, sleek and touch-able when viewed on my iPhone (and yours). So there you go, iPhone visitors – I am one of you now, I feel your pain, I have responded.

Download Squad: WPTouch makes WordPress blogs look better on touch mobile devices.

Is it a little scary that I’ve had 6 complete redesigns of this site? Someday I’ll dig them up for you in the internet archive – maybe for my 10th blogging anniversary. ;) Anyway, welcome to the new fully-wordpress-integrated look. I’ve been using WordPress on the backend for over a year, since I took a weekend and migrated all my legacy posts and comments into it. The site’s been a little clunky since then, so I’m happy to present a more unified, consolidated experience now that I’m taking full advantage of the flexibility of this platform.

Some of the hot new features I’m excited about:

• The Post Tags cloud on the left, showing the topics I talk about the most – bigger ones are more frequent.
• Twitter integration – also on the left, my latest random thought (ie: tweet), thanks to the slick Twitter Tools plugin. As these are now linked with WordPress I’ll have the option for future integration, and the same one-liners are also becoming my Facebook status as of late, too. I love killing many birds with one stone… haha, a twitter pun.
• Check out the Links tab up top for my del.icio.us tag cloud – like the Post Tags cloud but a collection of my bookmarks grouped by relative topic. There’s some good stuff in there.
• In case you missed my post about the British Auto Show, check out the new photo gallery format in use there. I’m still working to migrate old photos into this but new galleries will be this way and somewhere I’ll come up with a list of all the galleries that’s easy to navigate.
• And this is a gimme, but comments work properly now – you can log in and it will remember you next time, you can subscribe to a post and get RSS updates when someone replies to your comment – all the things everyone else using WordPress takes for granted that my visitors have been suffering without. So enjoy that, it’s been long overdue.

Feedback is welcome, as always, and thanks to the internet and all of you for listening to me for the last 8 years. :)

Just a quick update for ya. The news is now searchable (bottom of the page) so you can see how many times i’ve talked about you. ;)

Update: when I migrated to WordPress the search box moved to the top of the page.