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

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

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’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

I’ve added a feature to this site for those with reduced visual acuity. One can now make the text on this site larger if so desired. In the upper right corner, there are two A‘s in a small box. Clicking on the larger one makes the text on this site larger. Clicking on the smaller … Read more

Since the launch of this web site, I used a theme based on WP-Andreas01. Back then, I said that I probably wouldn’t be designing anymore themes myself, mostly because of MSIE. But you know how these things go, it started tinkling again. So I came up with the idea to base a layout on the … Read more

Now that I have ample time available, I’ve looked at some issues that I still had with this web site. First of all, the page navigation on the left was somewhat buggy. When one was somewhere inside the blog, the “Blog” item in the menu would not be highlighted. That’s been fixed. Secondly, the page … Read more

Today, I launched my new site, which is (again) powered by WordPress. I used this theme as a basis, and tweaked it to my needs. Reason for using WordPress is that I pretty much lost interest in building my own CMS, at least for the time being. My interests have moved to other things. Reason … Read more