Joaquim Rocha
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New blog design

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    Joaquim Rocha
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  • Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft

This blog is now 5 years old and needed a design revamp badly.

The old theme was based in a very simple one which was not designed for large screens. Also, back in 2007, cellphones were not like they are now and their use to browse the web was not comparable to nowadays’.

I wanted the new theme to be clean and responsive to different screen sizes, from my work screen (1920 pixel wide) to my cellphone’s. I tried many themes and ended up modifying the Twenty Eleven one so I benefit from its great features but I also have a distinctive design.

So my blog passed from this:

To what you see now on your web browser.

I need to thank my friend Mario Sánchez and Helena, my wife, for their advice on sorting out some details in the design.

I also took the chance to create a software section where I put the most interesting projects where I have been involved. I had a similar section a couple of years ago but it was not maintained and I figured that Ohloh and other web pages would do this for me but the fact is that in the end I had a section about travelling in my website and none about the subject that the blog’s main subject (software).

Hope you like it.