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		<title>Gaat nieuwe website NRC abonnees kosten?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NRC online is gestopt met krantje spelen. Maar hoe werkt dat precies dan? Is een website van een bedrijf niet een online visite kaartje?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nrc.nl" rel="nofollow">NRC Handelsblad</a> heeft sinds kort een vernieuwde website. Persoonlijk vind ik dat het er niet uitziet. Het lijkt niet meer op een krant, laat staan op de kwaliteitskrant NRC Handelsblad die ik altijd heb gekend. Met grote, bijna schreeuwende, koppen en enorme plaatjes probeert NRC volgens mij het AD/Telegraaf publiek binnen te halen.</p>
<p><a href="http://pietbos.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nrc-nl.jpg"><img src="http://pietbos.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nrc-nl-200x150.jpg" alt="nieuwe NRC site" title="nieuwe NRC site" width="200" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-427" /></a><a href="http://pietbos.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/vorige-nrc-nl.jpg"><img src="http://pietbos.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/vorige-nrc-nl-200x150.jpg" alt="oude NRC site" title="oude NRC site" width="200" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-428" /></a></p>
<p>Het redesign kwam nogal plotseling en werd slechts aangekondigd met <a href="http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2010/12/13/welkom-op-de-nieuwe-nrc-nl/" rel="nofollow">een kort stukje</a> op 13 december. Aan het aantal reacties op het nieuws, 1387 op het moment van schrijven, heeft het nieuwe design een groot shock effect! Wellicht is dit nodig om zo hits te genereren of misschien wel om bezoeken te krijgen van mensen die anders nooit op de website van NRC kwamen?</p>
<p>De achterliggende gedachte?</p>
<blockquote><p>We stoppen met krantje spelen op het web</p></blockquote>
<p>Of zoals <a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/hansnijenhuis" rel="nofollow">Hans Nijenhuis</a>, uitgever van het NRC, in <a href="http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2010/12/13/welkom-op-de-nieuwe-nrc-nl/#comment-703" rel="nofollow">de comments van de aankondiging</a> nuanceert:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mijn eigen verwachting is deze: we gaan aanvankelijk veel bezoekers kwijtraken, degenen die de krant op internet verwachten. (Zij zijn zoals gezegd van harte welkom bij de krant, de digitale krant of de app.) Vervolgens gaan wij veel nieuwe bezoekers winnen. Bezoekers die langskomen en ontdekken: he, dit even snel maar beter dan nu.nl! Bezoekers die we misschien wel voor het eerst in aanraking brengen met nrc. En die we vervolgens hopen te verwijzen naar, inderdaad, de krant, de digitale krant of de app. Ze zijn van harte welkom.</p></blockquote>
<p>NRC heeft bij deze dus ingezet om veel bestaande bezoekers (abonnees) te gaan verliezen, maar tegelijkertijd veel meer nieuwe bezoekers (en daarmee abonnees) te kunnen werven.</p>
<p>Maar hoe werkt dat precies dan? Is een website van een bedrijf niet een online visite kaartje? Met andere woorden, geeft een website niet een bepaald verwachtingspatroon voor de rest van de producten/diensten van het bedrijf? Ik ken het NRC als een krant met veel tekst, veel achtergrond artikelen, veel opinie stukken en traditioneel weinig plaatjes. De huidige website spreekt volgens mij meer het Telegraaf/AD publiek aan dan het traditionele NRC publiek. Maar als de krant blijft zoals die is, denkt het NRC dan werkelijk dat het nieuwe web-publiek de krant ook daadwerkelijk gaat kopen?<br />
Ik denk dat het NRC beter had kunnen besluiten om bepaalde content achter een &#8220;pay-wall&#8221; te zetten en wellicht een nieuw jasje voor de site, maar niet zo extreem als het huidige design!</p>
<p>Er is ook nieuws voor de mensen die in het buitenland zitten en al jaren trouwe bezoeker zijn van de website van het NRC.<br />
Hans Nijenhuis <a href="http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2010/12/13/welkom-op-de-nieuwe-nrc-nl/#comment-836" rel="nofollow">wederom</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;de site vanuit het buitenland lezen om op de hoogte te blijven van de ontwikkelingen in Nederland. Daar stoppen we dus mee.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nou, nou, daar zeg je dan nogal wat mee! Denk je werkelijk dat wanneer die mensen terugkeren in Nederland, zich weer fijn op het NRC gaan abonneren? En hun kinderen?</p>
<p>Heel erg jammer. Vanaf het moment dat ik een krant kon lezen heb ik het NRC Handelsblad gelezen. Sinds ik niet meer in Nederland woon en ik het weinig zinvol vind om 3 weken later oud Nederlands nieuws te lezen en daarom dus geen abonnement heb op de weekeditie, ben ik altijd een frequent bezoeker geweest van de NRC website. De huidige NRC site heb ik in elk geval niet nodig om op de hoogte te blijven van het nieuws. Waardeloze beslissing genomen door een waardeloos team die van het NRC een waardeloos online medium hebben gemaakt.<br />
Kan iemand mij een goed alternatief aanraden?</p>
<p>Nu wil ik het graag ook nog even over de broncode van de nieuwe NRC website hebben. Net als andere kranten in het buitenland heeft het NRC gekozen voor WordPress. Op zich een fantastisch besluit omdat de WordPress software uitermate geschikt is voor een krant. Helaas hebben ze bij NRC niemand weten te vinden die ook maar iets van web-standaarden en/of WordPress weet en de code is een complete farce!<br />
Een paar voorbeelden.</p>
<p>In het <a href="http://www.nrc.nl/css/default.css" rel="nofollow">default.css</a> file (een van de <strong>acht</strong> stylesheets die de NRC nodig heeft om te kunnen draaien) kwam ik classes tegen met namen als &#8220;watskeburt&#8221;, &#8220;watisnjouw&#8221; en &#8220;sjembek&#8221;. Buiten het feit dat wanneer je al ruim 12 jaar weg bent uit NL, je echt niet weet dat die woorden titels of teksten zijn van een NLs rap groepje, druist gebruik van dit soort classes in tegen alle web standaarden, zeker in HTML5, waar deze site gebruik van maakt. </p>
<p>Trouwens, nooit gehoord van het samenvoegen en/of minimaliseren van stylesheets? Voor elke pagina moeten die acht stylesheet files worden geladen, dat maakt de site er in elk geval niet sneller op! Ook had ik op z&#8217;n minst het gebruik van een CDN (Content Delivery Network) verwacht, maar ook dat heeft NRC niet nodig, alle media files worden gewoon vanuit de uploads folder in de wp-content directory geladen!</p>
<p>Het eerdergenoemde stylesheet maakt ook nog eens gebruik van &#8220;prachtige&#8221; comments, zoals:<br />
&#8220;/* blog-blokjes hebben grotere groenere ganzenvoetjes */&#8221;<br />
Stel dat de kwiebus die de huidige site op z&#8217;n zolderkamertje in elkaar heeft geknutseld wordt ontslagen, dan moet de volgende programmeur met dit soort bagger aan de slag! Lijkt me makkelijker om te beginnen met een child theme van Twenty Ten dan met deze zooi aan de slag te moeten!</p>
<p>Over comments gesproken: WordPress heeft standaard &#8220;threaded comments&#8221;: een comment systeem waar mensen die reageren niet alleen een reactie achter kunnen laten op het originele artikel, maar ook op wat iemand anders als reactie heeft achter gelaten. Niet alleen wordt een blog daarmee meer interactief, je krijgt ook een veel duidelijker overzicht van de discussie. Dit kan met 1 klikje in de WordPress settings ingesteld worden, maar zijn ze voor het gemak maar gewoon vergeten.</p>
<p>En dan de volgorde van de comments zelf: het meest recente comment staat onderaan, terwijl de chef internet juist de nieuwe stelregel van de website uitlegt met: &#8220;De enige hiërarchie is de actualiteit.&#8221;<br />
Lijkt mij dat reacties van lezers dan toch ook van die hiërarchie deel uit moeten maken? Of zijn de reacties van lezers niet actueel?</p>
<p>Natuurlijk ben ik niet de enige die deze waardeloze code heeft opgemerkt, maar chef internet <a href="http://nl.linkedin.com/in/ernstjanpfauth" rel="nofollow">Ernst-Jan Pfauth</a> doet dit op <a href="http://twitter.com/dutchproblogger/" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a> af als:<br />
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<p>Deze Ernst-Jan is een omhooggevallen knulletje van 24 die het allemaal zo goed weet dat hij zich niet hoeft te verdiepen in de vele onderzoeken naar de wensen van internetgebruikers voor papieren kranten (zie <a href="http://www.denieuwereporter.nl/2010/10/ik-wil-de-site-van-de-snelle-duiding-maken-interview-met-ernst-jan-pfauth-24-de-nieuwe-chef-internet-van-nrc-handelsblad/" rel="nofollow">interview</a> De Nieuwe Reporter). Zijn eigen <a href="http://dutchproblogger.nl/" rel="nofollow">blogje</a> (ook WordPress) is qua code nog beter dan de NRC site! Zou je een website die gebouwd wordt voor het bedrijf waar je voor werkt en waar je verantwoordelijk bent voor de internet afdeling niet laten checken door wat mensen om je heen?</p>
<p>Kennelijk denkt NRC geen SEO nodig te hebben, want in de head sectie van de website is er werkelijk helemaal niets te vinden behalve een titel tag. Ook is er niets te vinden voor de robots en spiders van de zoek machines; het robots.txt file verwijst naar een sitemap.xml file en als je die link bezoekt kom je uit op een 404 (Error Not Found).</p>
<p>Ik ga het er maar eens bij laten, anders wordt deze rant nog een essay. Ik denk niet dat de hoge bonzen bij NRC ook maar enig idee hebben wat voor gevolgen deze verandering kan hebben voor de krant&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Great YSlow Results!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wEbmAsteR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I wrote that I installed W3 Total Cache on Piet Bos dot ME. Today I will show you the most recent results. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week I wrote that <a href="http://pietbos.me/web-stuff/wordpress/new-coat-and-hopefully-a-bit-faster-406/">I installed W3 Total Cache</a> on Piet Bos dot ME.</p>
<p>Today I will show you the most recent results. </p>
<p><a href="http://pietbos.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/yslow-results.jpg"><img src="http://pietbos.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/yslow-results-425x345.jpg" alt="YSlow Results" title="YSlow Results" width="425" height="345" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-410" /></a></p>
<p>As you can see, my website has a Grade A and the overall performance score is 97, it suggests me to compress all (11 only) theme image files into a CSS Sprite, but it&#8217;s a royal pain in the butt to make and program such a thing!</p>
<p>Before I installed <a href="http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-cache/">W3 Total Cache</a> my website performed in the high Cs or low Bs, so this is a huge improvement! Thank you <a href="http://wpvibe.com/wordpress-w3c-total-cache-and-more-with-frederick-townes-cto-mashable-221/">Frederick Townes</a>! </p>
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		<title>The circle is round</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently Centipiet.com gathers updates from eight different sites and pushes them all nicely to Facebook. For the people interested in the underlying technology, here follows a short explanation.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week I proudly introduced a <a href="http://centipiet.com">new website Centipiet</a>, that gathers all my social media expressions neatly into one stream. Each media has its own color, so depending how busy I make myself appear, my &#8220;life stream&#8221; becomes a cacophony of colors. After a bit more tweaking I think I have managed to set it all up correctly now.</p>
<p>For the people interested in the underlying technology, here follows a short explanation.<br />
The site is made with a <a href="http://wpthemes.senlinonline.com/centipede/">child theme</a> I made for the default <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress 3.0</a> theme <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twenty-ten">Twenty Ten</a>.</p>
<p>I took the RSS Feed of each of the social media I wanted to import into the stream. Most sites are set up that you can easily grab this feed, however for others it is more difficult and for some it even looks impossible at first sight, but after a bit of searching, I managed to get the right feed for all sites.</p>
<p>The feeds of Facebook and Twitter needed some filtering, because each entry is prefixed with your name. That is where <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Pipes</a> comes in. At first sight Yahoo! Pipes looks quite intimidating, but fortunately there are plenty of samples and tutorials available, so eventually I managed to figure it out.</p>
<p>Before I had this live stream set up on <a href="http://centipiet.com">Centipiet.com</a> I automatically pulled my tweets, foursquare check ins and other status updates into Facebook. If I would continue to do so, then my Facebook feed would become very cluttered, so instead I cancelled all those. I wanted to push my <a href="http://centipiet.com/feed/">Centipiet RSS Feed</a> to Facebook instead.</p>
<p>However that posed one problem as I already was pulling Facebook into Centipiet; that would lead to an infinite loop. Again Yahoo! Pipes brought the solution by taking the Centipiet RSS Feed and filtering out all messages from the Facebook category.</p>
<p>Notes on Facebook turned out to be very unreliable, so I switched to <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/rssgraffiti/">RSS Graffiti</a>, a Facebook app, and now it all works perfect!</p>
<p>Currently Centipiet.com gathers updates from eight different sites and pushes them all nicely to Facebook. I am still waiting for YouTube as they only have an RSS Feed for your favorites, but not for your likes. As soon as a feed for those becomes available I will add it too. </p>
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		<title>new coat and hopefully a bit faster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have lost count how many times I have changed the URL and/or theme of this blog. Changing the theme keeps things afresh, but changing URLs is not my favorite thing to do, especially since I have one or two posts that people seem to find very interesting.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since a week orso I have changed the WordPress theme of this blog. I have stepped away from the <a href="http://pietbos.me/web-stuff/wordpress/wordpress-theme-kite-development-263/">Kite</a> <a href="http://pietbos.me/web-stuff/wordpress/launch-wp-theme-kite-266/">Theme</a> and instead have used a brand-new WordPress 3.0 theme called <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/voidy">Voidy</a> by <a href="http://www.diovo.com/about/">Niyaz</a>.</p>
<p>I actually have lost count how many times I have changed the URL and/or theme of this blog. Changing the theme keeps things afresh, but changing URLs is not my favorite thing to do, especially since I have one or two posts that people seem to find very interesting&#8230;</p>
<p>After yet another <a href="http://status.namecheap.com/?p=1662">massive week-long blackout</a> on the Namecheap Reseller Servers &#8211; which still hasn&#8217;t been solved as you can see when you click on the link &#8211; I finally managed to move the site to the <a href="http://senlinhostingclub.com/">Senlin Hosting Club</a>. They are hosted on <a href="http://www.bluehost.com/track/senlin">Bluehost</a> which seems to have more up-time than Namecheap will ever have.</p>
<p>Anyway, I still need to change over a few more things such as photos (I have ditched the NextGen Gallery plugin and will start hosting my photos via Picasa and/or Flickr), but in general lines the blog and its content have moved over and are running smooth.</p>
<p>Lately I have been hearing a lot about a new-ish cache plugin for WordPress. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/w3-total-cache/">W3 Total Cache</a> and after I downloaded it a few days ago, it looked quite intimidating to even start configuring it. Mind you I actually never have found it really necessary to use any caching plugin. But this blog wasn&#8217;t one of the faster sites around and especially now that I am back in China and loading times take longer anyway, I thought it a good idea to start using one.<br />
Fortunately 2 days ago I received a new message in my RSS inbox that contained <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-install-and-setup-w3-total-cache-for-beginners/">an excellent tutorial</a> on how to properly set up the W3 Total Cache plugin, so since this evening my entire website is cached. </p>
<p>Please let me know in the comments how this works for you!</p>
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		<title>WordPress for Android</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just downloaded WordPress for Android app from the Android market. This makes the wpToGo app redundant and &#8220;development will be discontinued in favor of the official WordPress app&#8221;. The app is suitable for self hosted sites as well as WordPress.com sites. If you&#8217;re on android and WordPress then you can scan this code to download [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just downloaded WordPress for Android app from the Android market. </p>
<p>This makes the wpToGo app redundant and &#8220;development will be discontinued in favor of the official WordPress app&#8221;.</p>
<p>The app is suitable for self hosted sites as well as WordPress.com sites.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re on android and WordPress then you can scan this code to download the app yourself. </p>
<p>More info on the <a href="http://android.wordpress.org">official WordPress for Android page. </a></p>
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		<title>WordPress via HTC Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 2 days I'm the proud owner of an android phone: the HTC Magic and as you can imagine, this little post is written on it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since 2 days I&#8217;m the proud owner of an android phone: the HTC Magic.</p>
<p><img src="http://mytechnews.info/b/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/htc-magic-vodafone.png" alt="an image" title="HTC Magic (Vodafone), picture courtesy of: mytechnews.info" /></p>
<p>There are numerous apps available via the marketplace and one of them is <a href="http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-10318780-251.html">wpToGo</a>, as the name suggests, WordPress on your phone.</p>
<p>As you can imagine, this little post is written on the HTC Magic.</p>
<p>Off now to cook, Mia after all has to put up with my geek behaviour, so I&#8217;d better show that I do care&#8230;  </p>
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		<title>Upgraded to WordPress 2.8</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just upgraded our WordPress version to the latest 2.8. Don't forget to make your backups, just in case! Major differences:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have just upgraded my WordPress version to the latest 2.8.</p>
<p>It went smooth like always, but don&#8217;t forget to make your backups, just in case!</p>
<p>Major differences as far as I can tell after a quick look:<br />
- Dashboard &#8211; Screen Options: it is now possible to divide the layout of your dashboard in 1, 2, 3 or even 4 columns to display all the different things the way you prefer.<br />
- Plugins are now all shown together on one page. Yes, they were already before too, but now they are listed all under one header. So inactive plugins are mixed together with active plugins, all listed in alphabetical order. I&#8217;m not sure whether I really like that, but hey, will get used to it eventually.<br />
- Installing New Themes is now easy as apple pie, similar to what already was made possible for plugins.<br />
- General Settings &#8211; Timezone: finally you can choose the proper timezone of where you are located! And by the looks of it, it auto-adjust itself then too for changes in daylight savings time.<br />
- CodePress Editor now gives syntax highlighting to your code. This is a major improvement to the plain-text editor of the past.<br />
- Widgets: I don&#8217;t use widgets, because I prefer total control (evil laugh), but they sure did receive a makeover!</p>
<p>If you want to know all the changes, you can have a look at the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_2.8">WordPress Codex</a>.</p>
<p>For the rest for the user it looks very much the same, so now I can go back to work (read: change the WordPress installations of all my other sites and those of my clients)!</p>
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		<title>WP Greetbox WordPress Plugin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course I wanted to see how he had done that and I quickly discovered that it was the WP Greetbox WordPress Plugin at work! Such a cool gadget I have to have too!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just now, when I was doing some online research I arrived on the website of <a href="http://yoast.com/">Joost de Valk</a> and I saw a cool gimmick at the top of his Post.</p>
<p>It was a welcome-message that said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Welcome Googler! If you find this page useful, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed or email updates to make sure you don&#8217;t miss a thing on yoast.com!<br />
You were searching for Posts relating to &#8220;tele2&#8243;. See posts relating to your search ¬¨¬™</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course I wanted to see how he had done that and I quickly discovered that it was the WP Greetbox WordPress Plugin at work! Such a cool gadget I have to have too!</p>
<p>I quickly found <a href="http://omninoggin.com/projects/wordpress-plugins/wp-greet-box-wordpress-plugin/">the author&#8217;s page</a> and downloaded the plugin.</p>
<p>So from now on if you are visiting my blog and coming from Google, Delicious, Twitter or anywhere else, you will see a nice welcome message on top of the page you&#8217;re viewing!</p>
<p>Yeah come on, try it out!</p>
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		<title>Launch WP Theme Kite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 21:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I built the theme so far on my localhost, but some things I cannot test there and since I was getting quite frustrated with the previous theme, I decided to do the switch now and tweak on while it's online.
Therefore it can happen that things look ugly as hell; know that I am working on getting it all right and straightened out, but of course you can always leave a comment to give me a head's up.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, a bit earlier than originally thought, I just launched my first <a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a> Theme: Kite.</p>
<p>The theme features a 3 column home page template that replaces the index.php. The Posts and Pages have 2 columns, content left and sidebar right, and the archive- and search templates have 3 columns again.</p>
<p>With the help of <a href="http://www.wprecipes.com">WP Recipes</a> and others, I tried to built in a few plugins, such as Recent Posts and Recent Comments, but of course also this theme still uses quite a few other plugins.</p>
<p>The Kite Theme also features Rotating Header images, built by <a href="http://www.pearsonified.com">Chris Pearson</a>, thanks! For now I am having a few kite pictures on, hence the name of the theme, but soon I will replace them again with my own photos.</p>
<p>I built the theme so far on my localhost, but some things I cannot test there and since I was getting quite frustrated with the previous theme, I decided to do the switch now and tweak on while it&#8217;s online.<br />
Therefore it can happen that things look ugly as hell; know that I am working on getting it all right and straightened out, but of course you can always leave a comment to give me a head&#8217;s up.</p>
<p>The comments template turned out to be a major pain in the butt and also the search is not all that easy to get right. I expect that eventually I will have it all in order though and by that time, have learned a lot.</p>
<p>Who knows, I might even release it as my first official theme&#8230;</p>
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		<title>WordPress Theme &#8216;Kite&#8217; Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only is this good practice, it will also be beneficial to future clients, because in theory it is then possible to take any kind of mock-up and "translate" that into a WordPress Theme.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apart from some website development projects for clients, lately I have been busy with developing my own theme.</p>
<p>Not only is this good practice, it will also be beneficial to future clients, because in theory it is then possible to take any kind of mock-up and &#8220;translate&#8221; that into a WordPress Theme.</p>
<p>I am not entirely sure if the theme will immediately be a complete one that can be packaged and used by everyone. First I need to finish the development for myself and get the theme working for the purpose(s) that I intend to use it for, i.e. this website.</p>
<p>After that I will see what I need to tweak and adapt to make it a full WordPress theme&#8230;</p>
<p>I expect my first theme, the name by the way is &#8216;Kite&#8217;, to be finished at the end of next week.</p>
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