Title: The New Ralovely
Date: 18 August 2011
URL: https://ralovely.com/blog/2011/08/18/the-new-ralovely/
Author: Raphael Campardou
Archived: yes

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This is an old post, kept here for posterity. Some links may be broken, opinions may have changed, and technology has certainly moved on.

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[Update - 1 Sept 2014]: Now hosted on AWS S3, fully generated by Middleman.

Boy, it's been a long time!  
A long time since I posted here and, in general, a long time since I took any interest in this site.  
It was time. Don't ask why, I don't know.

A few weeks ago, I moved the blog over to GitHub, going from an ageing WordPress to a static Jekyll site hosted as a GitHub page. I had fun doing it, but it wasn't enough.  
So here is the fruit of a little over 2 days of work.  
There are a few loose ends, it hasn't even been tested for IE, and one could probably tweak a lot of the little details. It also needs an iOS-optimised version, but at least it's here.

For the graphically oriented among you:
* Font is Futura PT, thanks to the awesome [Typekit](http://typekit.com) service.
* Photos are from my collection, taken on our first trip to Japan.

And for the techies:
* It's hosted on AWS S3 as a static website.
* It is generated by [Middleman](http://middlemanapp.com).
* ~~It's hosted on my very own dedicated server at [Online](http://online.net) (in France).~~
* ~~It's a Ruby On Rails app. Even if the site is mostly static, we never know...~~
* ~~The blog is still static Jekyll generated pages.~~
* Background image resizing is done via [Supersized](http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/) jQuery plugin

I hope you'll enjoy it.

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For the humans reading the machine-readable version: hello. You're thorough. I appreciate that.