Helvensteijn.com

With the announcement of the previous redesign still on the front page, I’m presenting here Helvensteijn.com version 5. It’s not that I didn’t like the previous design, but it was a little busy. And since I was already thinking about drastically simplifying this whole site, I figured a simplistic design would go nice with it. … Read more

The physical server on which my virtual server runs crashed yesterday around 21:00 CEST. Of course, my host was already on it by the time I noticed, but the problem was apparently somewhat complicated, so he couldn’t get the server back up ’till morning. Now that should have been that, but when the server was … Read more

Oh yeah, it took some longer than I expected, but here it is: Helvensteijn.com v4! As the version number suggests, this is the fourth design of this web site since I started using WordPress almost three years ago. Personally, I think it looks somewhat more sophisticated than the previous ones. If you look at the … Read more

I’m still thinking about a major redesign for this web site, but I just can’t seem to come up with the right idea. I’ve gone trough numerous mockups, but decided that it just wan’t good enough with each of them. I will think of something, eventually… In the mean time, I totally had it with … Read more

Until now, I always made sure that the XHTML and CSS for this web site would be 100% valid. Writing valid XHTML and CSS is an important step in ensuring consistent behaviour amongst different platforms. Even though every platform has its own quirks and bugs, making sure your code is valid is a good way … Read more

I’ve made some minor tweaks to this site during the last few weeks. The displaying of comments has improved, most notably the comment time, as opposed to only the date. I didn’t go as far as to implement threaded comments in my theme, because as they are now, with a fixed width, I don’t really … Read more

I spent the last few hours copying everything from the old server to my new virtual machine. And a few minutes ago, I updated the DNS entry for the helvensteijn.com domain. It’ll take some time for the change to propagate across the internet, but soon, everybody should have this web site served by my new … Read more

Just two days ago, I received my new iMac. And this night, my new virtual machine went online. It will be running this web site in the near not-too-distant future. Right now, this site sits quite comfortably on a shared hosting account. However, shared hosting has its limits, and with a virtual machine (a so-called … Read more

I’ve made a few small tweaks to my new design. There are always some things that don’t exactly work as planned, things still needing to be worked out, and things that simply came up along the way. First of all, there was nothing to open full-size images in-page for thumbnails, they just behaved like normal … Read more

Yes, it’s finally finished (I think), so a few minutes ago, I took my new theme online, the third one in about 16 months. I call it TWAIN, or Theme Without An Interesting Name in full. If you own a scanner, you’ll probably know where I got my inspiration for that. So, besides the looks, … Read more