Jeff Chan

Hi Again!

Welcome to the new website! Yup that’s right. This is the new design I’ve been working on. My main idea behind the design was a simple and super fast theme that is fluid, accessible, could easily extended.

This is the part one of my relaunch. In the coming days, I’ll be revamping my about page, creating a complete portfolio, an extended archives page and perhaps a downloads and tools section. What’s also coming is a bilingual support for Chinese.

Also a little story about my upgrading process. As usual, I deleted all the old WordPress files but I accidentally deleted the wp-content folder which contained all the pictures, themes, and plugins. This sucked. But hopefully I can get a backup from Shane. In the meanwhile, all the screenshots and thumbnails will not be accessible. Sorry about that.

 Topics: backup, blog, Blog Updates, update, wordpress

It’s Complete!

The new blog design I’ve been talking about is now complete! I’ve tested everything on here and it works fine. You’ll see it live once Wordpress 2.3 rolls out probably end of September. Like I said last time, I’m abandoning the category system and using the tagging system and Wordpress 2.3 has an awesome tagging system. I’m also aiming for a Chinese version of my site as well as some AJAX features ;). Stay tuned!

 Topics: AJAX, blog, Blog Updates, design, tagging, wordpress 2.3

Tumblelog

I’ve been thinking about getting a tumblelog because I don’t have much time writing long blog posts but sometimes I really want to share some things. The only downside about getting one is that I don’t have full control over the my domain, because I’ll have to point the domain to the hosting server. The other thing about it is that there is no comment system, so I’m still thinking about whether or not to switch.

So what have I been up to…

1. Final exams this week. School is out Thursday.
2. Working on a big project for a client, building everything upon MyBB through the plugin system.
3. I have a research paper due Wednesday, tomorrow, and I haven’t even started.
4. Preparing for the Internal robotics Botball tournament.
5. Upgraded this blog to new version of WordPress.
6. Finished reading Fast Food Nation. I’m now reading At the Center of the Storm, My Years at the CIA by George Tenet. I love autobiography and nonfiction books like this one.
7. Lots of summer assignment for next year’s AP World History class.

Catch up later.

 Topics: assignment, blog, Blog Updates, books, botball, Life, MyBB, robotics, summer, tournament, tumblelog, update

Back On A Schedule

Some of you may have noticed that my blogging rate has been decreasing over the past 3 or 4 months. I’m trying to get back on blogging with at least 3 to 4 posts per week. I want to expand my topics from tech and my life to perhaps my views on various topics. My goal also includes increasing the length of my posts. To do this, I might have to probably pre-write a few posts and store them (:P). So I’ll probably schedule posts and let Wordpress post them automatically.

You also may have noticed I tweaked the width of the content and sidebar so that the sidebar is slightly narrower and the content column is wider. This should be handy when I start increasing the length of my posts. I’m also starting to organize my categories.

Keep checking back!

 Topics: blog, Blog Updates, News, update, wordpress