Life’s Journal
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote something. I hadn’t been feeling well lately. However, the development process of this blog is still ongoing, albeit being a little too slow.
Up till now, there’s 27 pages in this blog, many of which is still hidden (they are still under construction so there’s no point for you to look at them anyway). This number might add up to around 30-35 pages in the next few weeks. If I were to commission a web designer to do all this for me, it would’ve amount to a few thousand ringgit already. Well, it is only right for them to charge as much because it is a not so simple process, this web-building thingies. I’ve went through it, so now I can say that I know it. =) Its just that at this moment, I’m not ready to pay that much. I still need to channel my money into buying that must have wide angle and the Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR lenses.
I’ve been adding a few more links in the sidebar, some widgets, and also finally a shoutbox (yeay!!! =) ). And on top of that, my shoutbox is also a lot more better looking than Daniels! Heheh, I beat ya on this one bro. ;-) Btw, I got my shoutbox here just in case you want one good looking shoutbox for your wordpress too.
My main concern about this blog is the image presentation part. Hey, this is a photographers blog, what do you expect? The gallery part prove to be a headache. I’ve tried so many types of gallery widget already (oh yes I’ve tried Slickr, WP-Simpleviewer, Wp-flickr, NextGEN etc) but I haven’t made up my mind yet as to which one is best. But I will have to eventually wind up with one of them, and right now SimpleViewer by Airtight coupled with a Highslide seems to look best. Come back some time soon and see on what I decided lah folks. ;-)
Anyway, I also had some problem deciding on the layout. This is the second layout for the whole blog. The first one was the Hemingway layout. I really like the HemingwayEx layout and almost settled for it, if not for its not-so-friendly mainpage layout that only allow two post to be shown, side by side instead of the usual all the way down navigation style. (Oh I really hope you folks get what I am trying to say…) But the slidebar is just totally awesome! Have a look at the HemingwayEx styling in Nalin Makar’s blog.
So in the end I settled down for this layout which is more navigation-friendly and very simple. Some people pointed out that it is too simple. Well, thanks for the comment but I am going to defend this styling simply because, I am still, a very simple person. But do expect a groovier layout somewhere in the future though. ;-) I do keep record and take into account of all that you peeps are saying.
Ah, so all the MMU peeps are gone, leaving only me and my roommate in our apartment. I went out on the balcony last night and saw that very few lights are turned on on the other block. Sigh… this place is seriously overpopulated by MMU students… But i guess that their leaving is a good thing because now this place is a lot more quiet. Before this you can always hear those noisy foreigner student who lived their life without any regards of the other residents here shouting in the friggin middle of the night when their football team scored a goal. Go watch those football match at a mamak stall lah please… Some people are trying to get some sleep lah dude…
I’m sorry that this entry is picture-less. I do have something stored in my hard disk that I am dying to show you guys, and because I’m all pink and healthy now, I’ll try my best to have them up within this week. :wink:
So that’s all for now folks!
Keep on clickin and rockin!
