黄 嘉 維

After a week of testing, I’m proud to unveil the latest iteration (3.0) of g a r y w o n g . o r g.

The changes:

• Retiring the Redoable theme from Dean J. Robinson. It had a good run – August 2007 to November 2008 – but modifying the php to implement the many tweaks was making maintenance more difficult. With the deprecation of plugins I was using in my Wordpress 2.2 installation, it was time to move on to a theme that would be more extensible.
• The new theme is Thesis from Chris Pearson. With what I was hoping to implement, it made sense to move to this theme as it’s best quality is the ability to use hooks to mostly eliminate the need to touch the core theme files. So far, it’s been well worth the $87.
• Gone is the middle sidebar, bringing this site back to a cleaner, more manageable two-column layout. As much as I liked having the sideblog in the middle column, it became really annoying to keep the text of each headline and comment to one line each to keep the clean aesthetic. The sidenotes are now asides and will appear inline, allowing me the freedom to write as little or as much as like.
• Gone as well is the monthly calendar from the sidebar – it was just taking up too much space. Also gone is LiveSearch – we’ll all just have to do with typing in a search term and pressing ‘Enter’ to perform the query. Tough, I know.
• Making it’s way over from the old musicblog is the inclusion of recently listened to tracks in the sidebar. Once again, you’ll all be able to see the eclectic selection of music I listen to.