It’s hard to believe that it’s only been a year since I ported this blog over to Wordpress completely, leaving the original blogger-hosted blog in the dust. It’s felt like forever, and before I stumbled on the old blog somewhere on this never-forget-anything cyberspace, I honestly couldn’t even recall what the old blog looked like anymore.

Honestly, the old theme was starting to get on my nerves. There were serious code glitches everywhere, causing incompatibilities with Firefox versus IE versus other browsers I didn’t even have the energy to bother to check. I thought I had fixed most of them, but there were a few elusive ones that never got addressed (see fellow CSS-nerd and site-overhauler, Liang’s comment on this post). Hopefully, with this new theme, things are more under control, and more consistent from browser to browser, and view format to view format (ie. main view versus archives view).

The deviations from the default theme include:

• new banner image
• minor tweaks on the look and order of post layouts
• relatively more major recoding of the sidebar layout
• expanding the container width to 720 pixels

Potential future modifications, if I ever get around to it:

• better linkage with the actual pages of shanwu.com (about, gallery, etc.)
• new banner image
• linkages to “previous” and “next” posts in archives view
• addition of an “Edit” link next to posts in the logged-in mode
• incorporation of domain pages into Wordpress-style pages — I have serious reservations for this because 1) it would take way long, and 2) I’m rather attached to the mouse-over image format of the pages currently, and I’m not sure if it’s possible to easily port the format into a Wordpress-hosted page

Okay, I think that’s enough coding for one day.