New OpenBlock theme
We recently integrated - and launched on the demo site - a new theme for OpenBlock designed by Phillip Ashlock. Thanks Phil!
It’s still a bit rough around the edges - there are some pages that still need attention. But I think you’ll agree that this is a big improvement already.
You might also notice that the base map tiles are now using Google Maps. This was because we were demoing OpenBlock at the IRE CAR conference and the OSM-derived base layer we’d been using was having server trouble, and it turned out to be quicker to swap in a Google base layer than to fix the server. This is something I’d always wanted to make configurable anyway, and it turned out to be easy. (Still need to wire it in to the admin UI though.)
Just for fun, here’s a trip through the past. When the EveryBlock code was first released, if you started it up with some data you’d see something like this:
Then, just to have something to work with, our coworker Andy did a stopgap design that looked like this (and ran on our demo site until a few days ago):
And now we’ve got the new theme:
