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Welcome to the improved Dejal website!
The Dejal site has had a significant overhaul to modernize it. All pages now support a responsive design, adapting for different-sized windows, plus dark mode support, a more modern font, and general appearance tweaks.
The app pages have also been redesigned, featuring convenient Pricing and Download buttons at the top, with pricing details and alternative download options at the bottom, and eliminating the sidebars for a cleaner look.
The Dejal Blog and FAQ now match the appearance of the rest of the site, with easier access to posts about app releases, a list of categories, and a chronological archive of all posts.
The Dejal Blog features the latest post at the top, followed by cards of earlier posts. Click or tap one to read the whole post. Search filtering of posts is available on all blog pages.
This blog used to use WordPress, a popular platform for blogs and more complex sites, but I've never been happy with the design and features. I thought about creating a new theme for it, but decided to go all in, and write a new blog engine for all three of my blogs — Dejal, my app company blog; Sinclair Trails, my travel blog; and Dejus, my personal blog.
Writing my own blog engine was something that I have wanted to do for years, but considered too big a job... until the modern age of AI. I used Codex to do all the work, based on my design and refinements. The blogs each consist of a shared website engine and blog-specific themes, a catalog of blog posts, and a custom Mac editor using my own DejalMark formatting. I created DejalMark decades ago, about the same time as John Gruber created Markdown, but mine was initially only used for Dejal release notes. I extended it for Time Out 3.1 for the new Messages feature, and have extended it again for use with blog posts.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the improved website and blog. Please let me know if you encounter any issues with it.
- David