Ok, so heres the situation.  In January I will be moving to China.  Unfortunatly the great firewall of china has blocked facebook, and it doesnt look like thats going to change anytime soon.  I’d like to develop coffee stains and ink spills a little more and implement a “wall” feature, so that friends can leave me messages that don’t need to be affiliated with any particular blog post.

The idea is that people will be able to (pending approval by me) register, and then will be able to leave comments on posts without the need for them to be approved.  Additionally registered friends will be able to leave comments on my wall.

I’m happier with this visual concept than the last one.  It doesn’t feel as ominous, and feels more fun and professional.  This is the current blue print I will be working from, but let me know what you think, constructive critisism is always appreciated.

The great firewall of china blocks facebook and twitter, two online services I update from coffee stains and ink spills.  When I post on the blog, coffee stains and ink spills updates my twitter message to inform twitter friends that I have done so.  Twitter also updates my facebook status.  Additionally, whenever I make a new post, it syncs with facebook notes, and becomes a post in my facebook account.  As kiamo.co.uk is hosted in north America, these updates should continue to work, despite my living in China.  However, I will not be able to log in to any of them directly, and will therefore not be able to read any messages people leave me on either facebook or twitter.  So I encourage you all to comment or contact me on Coffee Stains and Ink Spills.

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Yesterday I was playing in photoshop and created this concept for a new kiamo.co.uk theme.  I feel a bit unsure about it.  While I do like it, it somehow doesn’t feel completely appropriate.

What are your thoughts?

I’m thinking I’ll turn it into a wordpress theme regardless of whether or not I’ll use it.  You know… just for practice, and fun.

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Two nights ago I stayed up most of the night learning some XHTML and CSS for building my own wordpress themes. Last night I stayed up most the night coding simplyGreen, which was based on the quick theme concept I did earlier this week. Although it’s not entirely accurate to the concept, I’ve done what I can in one sitting. When I get a chance I’ll look into sorting out the footer(which currently doesn’t display where I want it if at all), and try to get a better grasp on controlling the page layout with div tags and css.

As I’m using the theme on my site there’s no reason to include an image, that and that I’m writing this post with the wordpress for iphone app which lacks a screenshot function or any means to attach the image in this post. So those of you that are rss subscribers will have to actually visit my site if you want to see it.

EDIT:  I did some more editing on the theme and broke it.  Gotta go to work now, but later this evening I’ll fix it again.  For now I’ve gone back to the previous theme.

EDIT:  Fixed it again, and updated it.  Still a few bits to touch up but its basically working.  Lets hope I dont break it again haha.

FINAL EDIT: Done!  I might work on a dark theme next…

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