Felix Ker's blog

This is a new layout you see, almost 12 hours up and running, smooth so far. I need decent feedback about how this blog appeals to you so appropriate changes can be made.

The last time this blog got a new makeover was more than a year ago! I’ve always wanted to do up something new but time was my biggest enemy.

I had quite a hard time trying thinking of the categories I should have.

Online

1. Started felixker.com as a blog writing about everything that caught my attention; topics include news, technology, love, media, money, tips & tricks, web links & many more. (Yea, alittle about SEX too.)
2. Modified & made 2 WordPress themes – Widgets-enabled Three Columns Kubrick Theme and Curved 3-Columns Wordpress Theme
3. Got myself 2 Virtual private servers (VPS). One in Singapore, for SGBloggers & Modish Media and another in New York (Named after a gorgeous lady I met – Melissa) for Web & DNS Hosting.
4. Decided that I should provide WordPress Blog Hosting (So gossipy). Yet to do any marketing for that site yet.
5. Sponsored blogs – Edwin’s Blog, Anna’s Blog (ritzily Stylish)
6. (Almost) Daily Twittering became my habit – twitter.com/felixker
7. Switched to use felix[@]ker[dot]sg as my main contact email and MSN. Old emails are still checked, but just less often.
8. Formally using Internet Explorer 7 to read news/blog/web feeds, recently I upgraded to using Google Reader. (May consider trying Bloglines next year!)
9. Joined Ping.SG and started pinging my blog for attention!

Can’t think of anything else. Do you know something I did in 2007 that’s worth mentioning? What have you done in 2007 that u think is worth sharing?

Curved 3-Columns is modified based on Curved Wordpress Theme designed by Aditi Tuteja from TextNData. This theme have a very unusual look and it is currently being used on our blog. It is named “Curved” because of the nice rounded corner search box in header. This 3-Columns theme supports widgets and have a nice striped header along with tabbed navigation.

Curved (three columns) is very similar to what I am using right now.

Why 3-Columns?

There’s an increasing number of web logs having 2 sidebars (3 columns) for more content. You can have :

• Advertisements
• Widgets (MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog, whos.amung.us, alexa, technorati, etc)
• Top Commentors
• Archives
• Frequent Tags
• Recent Comments
• Categories
• Twitter
• Popular Articles/Top Reads
• Recent Entries
• and so much more…

And that’s why I’m using a 3-columns design.

Speficications

Content (Blog entries) – 430 pixels

First (Left) sidebar – 260 pixels

Second (Right) sidebar – 190 pixels

Usage/Installation

Templates included: Archive

Install this theme like how you install any other theme; Upload the whole folder to wp-content/themes and activate it.

Feel free to customize it as much as you like.

Updates

v1.0.1 -17 November 2007 – - Minor cosmetic fix for comments
v1.0.0 – 15 October 2007 – First public release

Download

Download Curved 3-Columns Wordpress Theme (Zip; 98kb)

This theme is the widget-enabled 3-columns Kubrick theme. In case you don’t know, Kubrick is the default theme for Wordpress powered blogs.

Widgets

This theme is fully compatible with default Wordpress widgets and compatibility with all custom widgets.

Sidebars

There are two sidebars, and thats why we call it 3-columns. The left and right sidebar has width of 160 and 130 pixels respectively.

Dedication

This theme is dedicated to my dad who celebrated his birthday 2 days ago (2nd September), pretty sister (Anna) and lovely girlfriend who will be celebrating their birthday on 24th September.

Download Widgets-enabled Three Columns Kubrick Theme

Installation

Upload the whole folder to wp-content/themes and activate it. That’s all. Were you expecting more steps?

Bugs

Do post a comment if you encounter any bugs. Thanks.

The 3-column theme (without widgets) was made by LiewCF.

Wordpress 2.2.2 and 2.0.11, both security-related releases are now available for download!

I just upgraded my Wordpress (2 days ago) and was kinda late for 2.2.1 although it’s an important security update. So lucky I wasn’t targetted by any hackers out there.

For those of you who do not know what Wordpress is, do a google and you’ll find out. Wordpress is one of the best blogging platform I’ve ever tried! And it’s free, unlike BlogHoster.