What better way for a blogger and a developer to pass his time than to blog and develop 🙂
That’s exactly what I have been up to this past week or so.
New Plugins
So, the past week has seen a new plugin added to my already growing list of plugins. Over, the next week I intend to continue work on the plugins. I plan on scrapping a few ones which have long since served their purpose as well as reworking others. The latest ones could also do with many feature additions. So stay tuned for a few releases 🙂
New look for Techtites
I’ve also been working on a brand new look for Techtites. With the help of Moin, I’ve been able to revamp the entire site to a much better template. Have spent a good portion of the week working on the template. The first and major step was making the theme ready for WordPress 2.7 commenting system.
There’s still much to be done, especially the sidebar. Better ad placements has also meant a better click thru and so a wee bit more income.
New Look for Weblog Tools Collection
Mark has still not widely proclaimed it, but regular readers would have noticed the brand new theme at Weblog Tools Collection. I’ve been working with him over the past week to convert the XHTML / CSS template into a WordPress theme.
This is indeed rather painful especially if the template and theme are not designed by the same person or in the standard WordPress default theme format.
New look for AjayDSouza.com
If you’re reading this in your feed reader, then take a look at the updated AjayDSouza.com.
I recently stumbled upon Glassy Evolution by iSoftwareReviews and the theme just leapt out of the screen and I decided to use it. Thus ended a long hunt for the perfect theme. Well, sadly, this wasn’t the perfect theme either. For one, the theme doesn’t support WordPress 2.7 threaded and paged comments, so yet again, I went ahead modifying the theme for the same.
I’ve also made changes in the footer, getting rid of an About section. That is still a WIP as you can see. So is the sidebar, which will do well with some of what existed in the old theme.
I’ve added some social bookmarking plugins at the bottom of each post, so please do use them for promoting the posts you like 🙂
So, below is the old look and the new look.
I’ve also opened up the option of purchasing 125×125 advertising on this blog. There are currently four advertisements available for purchase at only $50 per month which is excellent considering that this blog is a top 100,000 blog as per Alexa, with over 700 pageviews a day.
Some Personal Life
With me blogging on both Techtites and here, I really haven’t had much of a personal life out of the ordinary. Did watch How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Outlander.
Dinner and lunch have been out quite often, with Talk About, Tamanna, Andhra Mess and Mudra being the joints that were frequented.
The entire next week is lined up with four assignments to complete, as well as a Finance paper that we’ve been working on for college.
If you’re interested in keeping track of my life, do follow me on Twitter.
That new weblogtools design is great – good luck with the conversion, it’s not an easy proposition.