Jeff Chan » wordpress

Hi Again!

Jeff — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:28:26 +0000

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.

Wordpress 2.1

Jeff — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:17:13 +0000

I’ve taken the time to upgrade this site to Wordpress 2.1. Everything went smoothly except I had to update some old plugins and edit some files. The best feature I like from this new release is the separate comments section which allows better comment control. The other thing I really like is the included Akismet plugin which filters spam. I’ve been using this plugin for a long time and it’s been catching over 2000 spam comments for me. The autosave feature is really awesome. I’ve lost several drafts because browser crash or what not.

Back On A Schedule

Jeff — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:00:52 +0000

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!