A couple days ago, Ryan and John pointed out to me that they had some usability issues with the color of the links on my site when you hover over them. I had been making them white, but that was just too hard to read on the light background of the site, especially for [...]

Wordpress 2.1 is out, and I’ve just installed it. It’s actually a much bigger update than I had realized. Here are the biggest changes I’ve noticed:

The visual editor is far better than it was before. You can also tab back and forth between the WYSIWYG editor and the code very easily.
There’s a [...]

I’ve been thinking about making a static home page for Toshuo.com for quite a while. According to my site traffic logs, most of the visitors to this site are new visitors who come in through search engines as opposed to regular readers. I suspect that most people who stumble across this site have [...]

In my second coding job, I was as a web programmer at a start-up broadband ISP in 1999. Admittedly, it was a pretty messed up company. Still it’s pretty depressing to be this inept at using wordpress. I spent 3 hours messing around trying to get my new site’s colors to match [...]

Well, now that I have a debit card again, I’ve registered a domain, and I’m in the process of migrating everything to wordpress. First I tried Andy Skelton’s excellent tool, but it didn’t handle the Chinese text in my blog too well.

WordPress database error: [Illegal mix of collations (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) [...]