Thursday, 5th June 2008- 33 Responses
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I have brought forward the launch of lesterchan.net a few days in advanced as I may not be free on the 9th June 2008 which is the original intended date of launch.
After more than 4 years of using the same layout, the old layout (version 2.0) has been finally replaced with this newer (version 3.0) layout. I think some of you may find this layout a little dull as compared to the previous layout because of the colors used. I am trying to come out with a variety of color schemes if possible because of the colors are controlled by CSS, the only limitation is choose the color. Do note that I am not a designer but a programmer. Most programmers are poor designers and most designers are poor programmers.
Changelog
- Upgraded site from WordPress 1.5.1 to WordPress 2.5.1
- Upgraded plugins from WordPress 1.5.1 to WordPress 2.5.1 compatibility
- Renamed /blogs/ to /blog/
- Merge Calendar and Archive Page
- Brand new AJAX driven Archive Page
- Brand new Donation Page
- Brand new AJAX driven Contact Me Page
- Re-coded Search engine
- Re-coded Gallery feature
- Re-coded Alex King‘s Since Last Visit plugin
- Added Plugins Used Page
- Split Programming Page into 3 sub-pages, PHP, Java and Visual Basic
- Posting Comments is now in AJAX
- Movable menu boxes by brother cake‘s Docking Boxes
- Menu is able to switch from left to right and vice versa and your preference will be remembered
- Javascript are all compressed/packed by Dean Edward’s Packer
- jQuery used extensively
- ThickBox used for Portfolio Images
- Using FamFamFam icons
Todo
- Add Playlist Page
- Add sitemap.xml
- Update favico.ico
Feel free to browse through the whole site if you have not been doing so for a very long time as most of the pages has been updated.
All the old URLs should be redirected properly to the new URLs, I have spent quite a lot of effort to ensure that.
You can report bugs in the comments =)
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32 Comments 
- 11:07
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
Testing #1!
- 11:14
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
Looks great in my FF2
No coding errors here, design looks aligned
Nice one
- 11:15
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
Looks great GaMerZ!
- 11:32
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
Wonderful Lester! Just a bug report on the comment text fields, it seems to be squashed, like there’s no space for Website: so it goes under haphazardly. See http://skitch.com/kevin/c9y6/lesterchan.net-version-3.0-blog-lesterchan.net
- 12:21
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
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stylo-milo ar your blog site’s new look!!
Nice layout!
New codes~!
Will continue checking in at your site too.
- 12:53
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
love you new skin dude!! =)
take care!
- 14:16
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
@uncle sha, @Shust One, @minfu, @geargina: Thanks for the compliments =D
@Kevin: What browser are you using? I tried using FF3 and IE7 looks fine for me.
- 14:53
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
wow.. nice new layout..
where’s the “IHATESPAM” thingy? haha.. not afraid of spams anymore?
- 15:21
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
@WiRus Nope, no more worries on spam as WordPress 2.5 I can use Akismet
- 19:41
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
Haha…quite surprise yr new website is uploaded so fast! Lol….Effective man!
- 20:55
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
很帅，字太小了，我眼睛都看不清，汗！
- 21:04
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
的确，字体有些小，累
- 23:13
- Thursday, 5th June 2008
Hi Lester, I used docking boxes 2 years ago but now discarded it. Btw, under Safari, when I try to drag the boxes around, the whole page goes blank. Maybe its DBX problems.
- 03:39
- Friday, 6th June 2008
@ltantic: I have trial run the upgrading process for at least 5 times lol
@Denis, @ON: Yea, the common problem is the wording is a little small, but if I make it bigger, it will spoil the layout. The font size is the same as previous layout
@Zz85: You have any other alternatives? I have been waiting for dbx 3.0 for a year and it is still not out. It is still in alpha. The jQuery WP one is using is super buggy. I have not tested the site on Mac as I can’t get hold of one within my friends/family
- 04:29
- Friday, 6th June 2008
eh… u need a nicer header. tat’s my long-dued job…
- 04:47
- Friday, 6th June 2008
@sleepy: I kinda like this identify { L C }. Perhaps you can improve on it =D
- 11:47
- Friday, 6th June 2008
Hey Lester! Wow, your new layout looks fantastic, and I see some new features too 
Congrats on the release of your new layout.
- 13:52
- Friday, 6th June 2008
@Azeral: Thanks WQ!
- 12:47
- Saturday, 7th June 2008
yea no more Ihatespam textbox.
Your trademark for your site will always be the nice clean layout with very few images ah…
Is there a complication for having /blogs/ to /blogs/ ?
- 20:49
- Saturday, 7th June 2008
@Shaun: Yea, I like clean, small and sleek. Minimalistic. For v3, WP now lives in my root directory, before there it is living in /blogs/ directory. I just add a /blog/ in front of my permalink settings in WP-Admin -> Settings -> Permalink
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