A new design for a new feature

If you have been following me on this site, you'll notice that what you are seeing now may be the third or fourth looks we have had since I started this blog last December. That would mean, each design lasted only three or four months. Not that there was something wrong with the old ones. The most recent theme (see screenshot for sample page) ~ with its excellent XHTML validation ~ was one of the best themes we have used, in fact. We have not … [Read more...]

Get ready now for WordPress 2.9 and beyond

Just when self-hosted bloggers are about to get warmed up to having WordPress version 2.5 - 2.7 (Yes, there are still those who are using version 2.5!), here comes the news that WordPress 2.0.x is already deprecated and retired. By "deprecated" is meant that WordPress 2.0 is no longer supported especially for the very important security aspect. In fact, according to Mark Jaquith in his post at the WordPress.org blogsite, it is the security … [Read more...]

Social media for the community

When you have been immersed in something for many years, something that you practically breathed in and out almost every day, you begin to think that everyone knows exactly the same thing as you do. This is what I realised when in the course of email discussion groups, someone proudly announced that he was able to set up a blog site and with a WordPress at that. Wow, that really hit us! Does it mean that during all those time I was … [Read more...]