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CherryBerry2 WP Theme in Developement!
Sorry for the lack of updates. I am currently working on a highly anticipated wordpress theme, CherryBerry2. So far coding is going on very smoothly. If everything goes well, I can release CherryBerry2 in a few weeks time.
I am using KISS principle to develope this theme, so I do hope people won’t have to pull their hair just to customize the theme. Because of that, I am dumping this theme supports on older browser. Your codes can’t be simple to support both modern and older browsers (think of the CSS Hacks). So far, this theme looks fine on most modern browser on Windows platform.
So, before I release this theme, any suggestion for features to be added in this theme? 
I am not too sure what people want in their theme. I can try implement any requested feature that is within my skills to CherryBerry2. 
Update: I created a page for Cherry Berry 2, with all the roadmap and crap. This is to prevent myself from slacking off 
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TheMiak.com Redesign Complete!
At last, after spending hours coding this theme, I finally finished it. Special thanks to Kael who drew and coloured the banner. Anyways, My friend is satisfied. I am satisfied because this is one of my best work so far, other than the theme used here of course The theme used there is based on this theme used here. And this will be the based for Cherry Berry 2. Now that I have finished this project, Cherry Berry 2 will be on the way.
TheMiak is a comic + blog site, and my friend requested me to do a redesign for that site since early this year. But I’ve been slacking off and lazy. And study of course. Finally finished it, and everyone’s happy now. But I still have to do one more thing on the site, that is to setup a comic gallery.
Among the features I have implement on TheMiak redesign are:
- Gravatars. On both post and comment. Now how cool is that? The reason I used gravatar on post as well is because it is a group blog, and I think it would be good if all bloggers have their own avatar, thus using Gravatar, a Globally Recognized Avatar.
- Official Comments. Without the plugin. Well, this mini hack uses codes discussed in the MalaysiaBloggers forum. So anyway, if the author of the site leaves a comment, there will be a star on his/her name. Just like how it is here on my blog.
- Widgetized. Now I know how to widgetize my theme. I widgetize TheMiak theme is because I want to learn how to implement widget to a theme. This is for Cherry Berry 2 after all
I learned a lot when coding this theme. And I hope to create a better theme in the future. 
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Spam, Spam, and More Fucking Spam
Recently, my blog got attacked by some spambots. And yes, around 2000-3000 spams per day caught by my anti-spam plugin on my blog. That sure sucks. I am so tired of those spams clogging up my database and eating up my precious bandwidth. My blog took around 50-60MB bandwidth per day only. Because of those spambots, my bandwidth increase 100%!!! Now my site took 100-150MB bandwidth per day!! Damn!
Because of these nuisance, I upgraded my wordpress and all my spam plugin. Hopefully my first, the outer most protection can prevent all those spams from coming in. Then, I don’t have to worry about my bandwidth sucking up
Enough geektalk. Now to the test phase. For anyone reading these, try leaving a comment, see if my spam plugin caught you as spam or not. Of course, don leave pointless comments like “asdasdasd”. That is spam. Anyway, if you are not a spambot but you are flagged as spams, leave me a message at the shoutbox or my email/msn messenger at geminigeek [at] gmail [dot] com. I will try to resolve the issue as fast as possible. Thanks
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WP Theme Competition
As I said earlier, I am working on a new theme for a public release. The time is here, what a coincidence that KCYap is announcing a wordpress theme competition!! Chance!! Chance!! Chance!! I want an IPOD!! 
Well, competition starts on 15th January and ends on 28th February. One whole month to design, the time is more than enough. I have been lazying around, and now its time for me to play with codes!! Woohoo 
Hmmm… with 10 judges around, and the judges are secret, I wonder how do they judge the design. Accessibility? Looks? Cross-browser compatibility? But I guess that DannyFoo and AlexAllied are surely two of the 10 judges, since they are quite popular for designing in the malaysian blogospehere.
That’s all I have to write for today. Blogger’s block for the past few days. X/
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Wordpress Theme is Online
Wordpress Theme-ing is something that I will continue on doing, after my SPM. Well, I have recovered my Cherry Berry theme, so now all of you can start downloading this theme and have fun.
By the way, the Wordpress Theme page is now filled with a theme. Yea, just one
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