It’s been quite a while since I wrote anything in the site development blog, but that doesn’t mean that nothing has been going on.

Apart from the addition of content, the site has undergone a lot of cosmetic changes, and has a new search system which is much better than the standard WordPress search.

In a nod towards the fact that the whole future of the internet seems to be based around social networking, each post contains a tinyurl, and buttons to share the content on the most popular social networks. From the front page, you can subscribe to the new johnonfood newsletter, and follow John on twitter.

Due to the fact that the site has been getting more and more traffic, there have also been a lot of changes to the backend to improve the speed at which the site runs. Static images are now offloaded to a CDN (Content Distribution Network), and the whole site is heavily cached to reduce the load on the server.

There are a lot more changes in the pipeline which will be appearing very soon indeed.