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

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

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

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