After two years of being a pro-Disqus user, I decided to switch back to WordPress Comments today.
I know, I know, I heavily promoted it some two years ago because it’s the best and convenient add-on you can put in your blog and website to encourage interaction between the readers and the blogger.
The beginning of a new year is always a good time to start on something that you procrastinated since the last few months of the previous year.
I know that up to now, I still have a lot of backlogs that are yet to be written and published in this blog. I thought to myself that this month, I really should get to it and publish at least 5 of those backlogs.
Great. Now I have a small “to-do” list. Yes, just like that.
Other than backlogs, there are certain web projects that I need to start on. Promise I’ll be productive this month — and I’m not just saying that!
I already started with sorting out my domain. This domain in particular. Baby steps, as they say.
Without further ado, let me announce that you may now access my domain so-stellar.org through so-stellar.com starting today!
Hi everyone!
Though it’s very late to make this announcement, I think I owe it to you who have voted me to let you know that I made it to the top 25 in my region and the top 100 finalists in the Big Blog Exchange 2014. 🙂
They’re gonna announce the final 16 bloggers who will be part of the exchange tomorrow.. or on the 17th, maybe. Lol timezones confuse me. I haven’t put much thought about this at first because I was expecting I wouldn’t make it to the top 25. I kind of forgotten about it too, until a friend sent me a tweet saying I’m included.
Best of luck to everyone who will be included. Have fun!
And lastly, thanks very much for taking the time to spend 5 minutes to vote for me during the campaign. Or sharing my tweets/posts about it around social media to your friends. Every vote counted, and now we’re here. I stopped halfway w/ the campaigning, but I think some people still found the post and clicked from it.
THANK YOU!!
And if I don’t make it, there’s always next year to try again. No worries.
Well, here it is! The outcome of my plan to convert my blog’s theme to a responsive layout. Apparently, I failed at converting it and I still have a long way to go. I thought it would be easy as installing a plugin and attaching a script to your theme’s header, but I was WRONG. :))
I skimmed a couple of articles about responsive web design/web layouts and some of what I read mentioned “grids”, “multi column layout”, “computing”, “framework”, “calculate”.
Lastly, this image/visual aid always makes an appearance:
I don’t even know where to begin with comprehending this
Suffice to say, but I did not understand anything about it. I really don’t. 😥 I’m pretty sure I was turned off and lost interest the moment I saw the words computing and calculate. At this point, I already had messed up the layout I was working on. So what I did is, though I wasn’t in the mood already, try to come up with something and finish it. And here’s the outcome!
So much for being a “web designer”.
I first heard of this “style” when I noticed that a couple of websites that I usually go to, when resized, automatically moves/scales the sections together. It looks so cool and amusing (because it was oh-s0-new-to-my-eyes) that it became an encouragement to try it for myself. More websites are doing this now since a lot of internet users access websites through mobile platforms now (iPads, Android tablets, mobile phones) and this would help load the website faster, as well as provide easier site navigation for small-screen internet browsers.
I also noticed that from the usual 1000px width of containers for websites (blogs, mostly, I think), a lot of people are using 1140px now. With this current layout, I accomplished that. At least there’s one from my objective that I was able to do, hahaha.
Anyway, that’s all. Just some 411 about how this layout came to be. :)) I finished coding this in less than 24 hours, too. New record? New record. If you happen to come across any pages with errors, just refresh the page and it should display propery. If it does not, let me know ASAP.
On the other hand, if you have any recommendations to me w/ regards to understanding and learning how to design/convert/create responsive website layouts in an easier way, please don’t hesitate to comment and tell me about it! 🙂 If it’s a how-to for dummies, that’d be better. . . haha! Seriously.
