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It's been such a long time since I have done a proper redesign of this site. After some thinking and tinkering with CSS for about a day, the final design is done. With the help and ideas from Sally, the redesign was much better than I had hoped. The thing I like about this new design is that in Firefox it will scale nicely when increasing and decreasing the text size. It doesn't work that properly with Internet Explorer, I am not sure why but I am a bit lazy to fix it at the moment.

For this redesign, I used all open source/free tools to help me:

1. GVim for editing the HTML templates and CSS files
2. GIMP 2 for the graphics
3. FileZilla for FTP
4. Web Developer Extension for Firefox to debug DOM/CSS issues

Unfortunately, I was running all these on Windows, but only because I wanted the convenience of testing on Internet Explorer and Firefox. But I could use yjpark's suggestion to install Internet Explorer on Linux with WINE or use VMPlayer to run Windows with Internet Explorer. But anyway, its done and I am happy with the results!

One last thing to note, one of the most important thing I realised was using the right fonts. I am using Georgia, which kinda look pretty nice. So for those machines without this font, they will be seeing Times New Roman. Hmmm, I wonder how that would look?

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I was wondering how good is the mandarin language support for b2evolution. So, this is just test post.
I am using the GB2313 encoding. I have no idea why are there so many standards. What is the difference between them? Can't we all use Unicode?
And it seems that the auto-detect for character encoding is not that good for Firefox or it could be because this blog has got a mix of English and Mandarin.

Just did some "hacking" of the "default" CSS codes and voila!

My Second Blog Design

This is my first blog design. Its actually one of the default templates that come with b2evolution. I got to find time to create one of my own.

My First Blog Design