HTNet - A Notepad of Tech, Business, Science and Self Improvement

This has to be the most accurate description of HTNet ever; “A Notepad of Tech, Business, Science and Self Improvement”. Why? Because I usually write about those things and HTNet is my online notepad of sorts.

I was pretty much sick and tired of the old tagline “Your Source of Prescription Tech Medication” because I don’t only write tech stuff, and I doubt anyone thinks I can prescribe those either!

I can’t believe it took me this long to find a more suitable tagline for HTNet, especially when I first thought of changing it in April this year. Well, at least it’s a done deal now.

After waiting for about a week, I’ve finally converted to WordPress 2.3. Overall, it’s a painless process provided you know what you’re doing. Listed below are the steps I’ve taken to upgrade my WP installation.

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If you’re a regular reader of HTNet, you might notice that I have adjusted the look of the site a bit. Some of the changes I’ve made include:

1. Converting the theme to use fixed width instead of the original fluid width style
2. Minor cosmetic changes to the header and footer
3. Making better use of the footer by widgetizing it (it now holds two menu columns and the standard footer text on a third column)
4. Since the footer can now hold widgets, moved some that used to be in the sidebars there
5. Modified the index and category sections to hold a maximum of five posts per page
6. Speaking of pages, I also installed a post pagination plugin; so browsing pages is no longer restricted to next or previous pages
7. Changed all sidebar widget headers to use <h5> instead of the WP standard <h2>; yeah, admittedly mostly for SEO and semantics
8. Also made the sidebar widget headers use a smaller font size

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20 days ago, I launched shlnk.com. Sure, there are already a few URL shrinking services, but I still went ahead with the idea because I know I can provide a better service.

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Just when I have made some minor tweaks to my theme, WordPress 2.3 has also been released. Talk about weird coincidence. Anyway, I won’t be upgrading quickly, but I do feel that I’ll get all my blogs upgraded by middle of next week.

I usually wait a while after a major release of WordPress to read more of other people’s upgrading experience… mostly to get a “feel” of the potential problems I might face.

Mind you though, I did try out WP2.3-RC1 and it was mostly smooth sailing although it choked my post categories (because I choose to slug them as “tags”) and bookmark categories as well. But it wasn’t hard to fix anyway.

If you’re a WP user do you have plans to upgrade? Why and why not?