So I flipped Fury 3.1 on this morning. There are still tweaks to be made, and I'll be fixing little things left and right for the next few days, but for the most part it's done.

New features include:

• Permalinks! - Use the icon for permalinking to a particular entry. Right now permalinks go to individual article pages with one article to a page. In the next few days I may change that so permalinks will go to the appropriate month-view, jumping to the entry with an anchor tag. I'd love feedback on what you find more useful.
• Updated masthead - The new masthead has little icons along the top right for different areas of the site. These will grow more numerous when I make more icons, and migrate more content to the new look. The bigger 'microbanner' will randomly rotate between these areas, so you can get a little more detail on one before you click through.
• Topics - Probably the biggest architectural change in Fury 3.1 is the ability to surf by topic. Each entry can be correlated to one or more topics, and you can click in the topic name (in parentheses after the entry's title and date) to jump to that topic's page, with all the entries that match that topic. It's a fun way to surf, and designed for those who haven't been here from the start, and might want to see what else has been said about topics I post about. The topic array is wide rather than deep, so there are lots of topics, but not so many posts in each topic. I think that this makes it more useful than lists of 50-100 posts each.
• Totally new underlying framework - Not that you can see it, but the way the system builds the pages is completely new, consisting of an object-oriented framework I built in PHP and mySQL. It should add for a lot of flexibility for future changes, and makes site consistancy a lot easier to maintain.

Well, that's it for now. Like I said, I'd love to hear your feedback. Visually the changes aren't very significant, but I wanted to start with the architecture, then build on it.

Manga!