Updates and an artificial album cover

As regular readers will know, I’ve been running the Sciencebase site since July 1999. Its precursor, Elemental Discoveries, had various homes on the web from December 1995 until that fateful summer. There are almost 4000 articles in the archives, so it’s quite a hefty site for a one-man show. Anyway, having played around with various website options in the last couple of weeks, I’ve finally done a proper spring clean, got rid of some very out-of-date articles and updated others that were worth keeping. I’ve upgraded security and performance stuff so the site should load much faster than ever before but also present no security problems to visitors (I don’t think it ever did, to be honest). I’ve also now added a new and improved search box. I’ve also made search easier for mobile users who can now access the search box from the menu rather than guessing where it might be and having to scroll to the bottom of the page. The new search box also anticipates what it is you might be searching for. So, if you start typing “avian” it might assume you’re after information on “avian influenza” of which there is quite a lot in the Sciencebase archives. All in, I hope the site is now offering an improved experience for the 3000 or so unique visitors the site gets every day! I also wanted an illustration for this blog post about all the updates and so prompted MidJourney with the spider web emoji to allude to the worl...
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