Category Archives: Site Updates

Site Updates

My New Forum is now Live

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Robby Chen

As you can see in the menu above, I installed a new forum using phpBB specifically for this blog. The forum will be used to discuss two main topics: GNU/Linux and web development, which are also the main topics for … Continue reading →

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Big Update

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Robby Chen

I upgraded this blog to WordPress 3.0 today and tried it. I love some of the new features for this release , especially the new theme customization options. Therefore I updated the structure and layout for the whole blog in … Continue reading →

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Planning to Create my Own WordPress Theme

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Robby Chen

After read about the malicious code in free WordPress themes, I have decided to learn and make my own WordPress theme after I complete the redesigning project. Since I created this blog about one year ago, I only used two … Continue reading →

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Pass a Value to Multiple PHP Variables

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Robby Chen

I had been taking UMUC 411 this week, an one-week online test drive class for University Maryland University College. I was too active in the class that I didn’t have anything to write about on the blog. Now the class … Continue reading →

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Writing a New Class

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have been writing and testing a new PHP class today to make me easier to create my new site menu bar called menu class. It contains a nested unordered list and a for loop to create the sub-menus. I … Continue reading →

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Site Menu Animation Prototype

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Robby Chen

I have been playing around with MooTools recently and came up with an idea to allow users to change the orientation of the menu for my updated site with animation. MooTools is an Object Oriented JavaScript framework similar to jQuery. The main … Continue reading →

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Created a new logo

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Robby Chen

I decided that the logo redesign is my next step for the project. Blender and GIMP are two editors that I used to design the current logo. The tools I used to create redesigned logo are Inkscape and GIMP. I … Continue reading →

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Color Theme Successfully Changed to Ubuntu Radiance (Beta Site)

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Robby Chen

As discussed in the last post, I’m beginning to update my main site’s layout and color theme. Today I was trying to apply the Ubuntu Radiance theme onto the color theme for the site. I’ve mainly focused on the window … Continue reading →

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Played Around with Drupal, Upcoming Site Update, and more …

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Robby Chen

I hadn’t write any blog post since last Thursday. The reason is because I had been playing around with Drupal. Drupal is a Content Management System that is similar to WordPress, in my experience, because it can install additional plugins … Continue reading →

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My New Mini-blog (Updated)

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Robby Chen

(UPDATE 06/28/10) I’m closing down the mini-blog because it gives me a huge productivity lag by posting the same content onto that blog and Twitter/identica. Tumblr will automatically post the new articles to Twitter and Facebook, but not to identica. … Continue reading →

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