In case you (whoever you are) have not noticed, I changed the theme running this site. I was bored last week and thought the site could look a little nicer. So I went through some themes from Elegant Themes, and found a few I liked. I setup a sub-domain for some testing, Dreamhost makes that wicked easy, and played around until I found one I liked. So far so good, the new theme looks nice, and I like how it works. There isn’t much...

I bit the bullet recently and paid to join a site with some premium themes. The site is Elegant Themes, and for $20 a year you get access to a lot of nice looking themes. They have their own options and most have multiple layout and color options. The themes are very nice looking and well put together, the designer/developer did a great job here, and at $20 for a year, access to all the themes you can want to choose from, and potentially...

I made another site for myself, this more for personal stuff, mainly posting pics from my RC Racing and whatnot. This one is on a different host, Dreamhost. My girlfriend’s blog runs there, and with just about everything is unlimited, storage, bandwidth, etc… No offense to A Small Orange, but I kind of like them better now that I have spent time with it. Dreamhost has a lot of stuff built into their web panel that just makes...

I’ve been busy working, both for my job and to finish learning what I need for Ruby on Rails. I’ve been spending some time with Ruby on Rails again, now that the books have mostly caught up to the version 2 and 2.2 stuff, it’s making a lot more sense. I do find it a little funny that as soon as the books come out for 2.0 and 2.2, they drop 2.3 on the community. I haven’t looked at it much, but hopefully it...

I recently setup a new blog for my girlfriend using Wordpress, on a different host than this one (great deal I couldn’t pass up). We were looking for themes for her quilting and crafting site, and found some pretty good blogs and resources beyond the typical one, the Wordpress theme directory. First was a blog called ThemeGrrl, as the name and title suggests it is for more feminine themes, but since this was my girlfriend’s...

For anyone out there that is interested and unaware, there is a new version of Wordpress out, 2.7. I just upgraded this site to use it, painless as always, andso far the new version is good. The admin interface has been overhauled and it is very easy to use. They added a lot of panels that you can show/hide and all kinds of flash. Don’t let it fool you it’s not just adding some sexiness to the platform for the sake of doing so,...