For the past years I have received steady Google notifications that my personal site wasn’t responsive, i.e. that it would very likely not work properly on mobile devices. Viewport wasn’t set, and text was too small. So today I bit the bullet and looked around to see if there would be any WP plug-ins that might help me with this task (I shuddered to think of what it would require me to do if I opted for a by-hand option). Lo and behold, there was such a plug-in!

I rather quickly found “Mobile Menu – Your WordPress Menu“. The free version offered enough flexibility and, it seemed, mobile compatibility. That was all I needed. After I figured out how to create the content of the potential left and right hamburger menus at the top of the mobile screen (Appearance > Menus, and then adding all WP ‘pages’ to the left one, all categories to the right), and then enabling and choosing those menus in the Mobile Menu Options, I was pretty much set!

So about 16 months after the previous technical change on this site, I think it may now finally be what I want it to be. There will no doubt be some more changes in future.

It is 20 years ago that I made my first home page. Back then I think it was on the server of a friend (the late Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen, may he RIP) and I don’t recall there was a fancy domain name. It may have been something like www.scriba.org/karsmakers.

Of course that page was nothing like the current version. In fact it was a few frames with some basic (and probably useless) info about myself. I guess it was a thing you just did once you took out a subscription with an internet provider. I withstood the temptation to add dozens of animated GIFs like some people did, which may in retrospect have been the only positive thing it had going for it. It gradually grew to include some info about my first marriage (sortof a – censored – honeymoon diary) and some semi-professional information. Then my CV got added, and for a while there was a page advertising myself as your go-to person if you wanted English press releases/lyrics checked. I doubt that particular page was ever found by anyone. The Internet Wayback Machine has an old partial (more like ‘butchered’) copy from circa 2001 and and then again after my first divorce (basically the same as before, minus the “Wedding” menu item).

So today marks a historic event for…um…nobody but me, actually. Twenty years of exhibitionism on the web, culminating into the WordPress site you see before you (from February 2012).