Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

If you are reading this blog with a browser then you probably have noticed that the look of the site has changed a bit. If you read this blog through RSS then you might want to pop up a browser and have a look.

I updated the software – wordpress – that powers the blog to the current version – 2.1. The upgrade was really easy, all I had to do was to ftp the new files on to the server. It took about half an hour to get the files up and then about 20 seconds to run the install script. Have to hand it to the people who put together wordpress. They sure have things set up smoothly.

That done I thought it was time to update the look of the site. Apologies if things look strange, but I promise that I wont changes things once I get everything tidied up. Well at least for a couple of months. In my experience changing a web sites design is quite a dangerous thing to do, there are a number of sites I have stopped viewing as much, gaijinpot and the press being a couple of examples. Of course there aren’t that many people who read this blog, so I am not so worried about that.

The previous blog template was a slight modification on the Pink October Wordpress theme kindly put together by Derek Punsalan at 5ThirtyOne.com. I put that one up as Bitshifter pointed out the comments weren’t working properly, and even though Upstairsforthinking liked the triangles it never really felt like “me” so hence we have a new skin. (btw comments have been tested this time, and they seem to be working! they haven’t been tested on windows though).

I wanted to go for a more traditional blog look with a number of posts on the main page, rather than one full post and then excerpts from another five. I think if people drop by occasionally then it is easier for them to read through the posts. I still have to fix up the link blog, and a few other little things.

Hope you like it!