Helvensteijn.com

I just launched a new code section. I always had something like that in the form of some separate pages, but now I integrated it into WordPress, so it looks and behaves the same as the rest of this site. I’ll have to see if I think any of the old projects are still interesting … Read more

When I started using Twitter about a year ago, I soon realized that if I wanted to tweet about a new blog post on my site, I was going to need a URL shortener. Back then, I chose to use bit.ly’s services, and until recently, saw no reason to change that. Lately, however, it seems … 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

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