Blog redesign
I know what you’re thinking… “Its about time that I redesign my kick-ass blog! And please write some new content!” :p Well I’m happy to tell you, my faithful readers that I would grant your request! Right now I’m doing some sketches of my new blog and this time I would not search for free premium templates as I’ve been doing for the past year. I would also write new content every week after implementing the new design. Although I would write some articles even before the relaunch of my blog’s new look.
The redesign process would go through the following process:
- Design sketching
- Sketch to Photoshop mockup
- Photoshop mockup to XHTML and CSS
- XHTML and CSS to Wordpress
- Wordpress to my adoring readers!
I’m fairly confident that I will be successful with this project and after the relaunch I will decide whether to provide Wordpress development for you guys and gals! Please come back often to check the date of the relaunch. If you have any tips please share it because I badly need some. 
Hacking WP-EMail
WP-EMail is one of the many Wordpress email plugins that I decided to use in my recent project. Installation instructions were pretty straightforward but after filling out the fields and hitting the submit button I received a “Language failed to load: instantiate” error. I then decided to look for support in their forum and I landed here. I followed all the suggestions in the forum and exhausted all of the options for configuring WP-EMail but still there were all these different errors coming out.
Thats when I decided to go back to PHP basics of sending email to check if the server is really capable of sending one. Read more
Theme Hunting
Right now I’m in the process of searching the right theme for my website. Most of you probably didn’t spend too much time looking for your theme but I guess I’m not alone my journey. Although I’m very much at the programming side of things I sometimes when I have the chance design web templates. But for now since time is of the essence I rely on ready made templates available for Wordpress.
So for everyone like me how do you pick your design or theme? Do you go through any process? Do you try out a design for at least a week then change it eventually if you don’t like it anymore. How do you pick your colors? Feel free to share your opinions.