The WordPress Release Candidate 1 is out now and I decided to install it today. The installation/upgrade went very smooth and right now seems that everything works fine. During the next hours and days, I’ll do some heavy testings, so do not wonder if you see some strange things happening here :-))

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Cheers, Vernon Trent

Regular visitors of this blog have already noticed the new design.
A major update has been done to a lot of the core files and of some plug-ins have been adapted too.
My host moved some weeks ago to a new provider with new servers and software versions. This move had the effect that the blog functionality was a bit “disturbed”, such as the contact form, being my most important communication interface with my visitors.
Being “in the run” with all the reprogramming and customizing, I have decided to add some more functionality to the blog. Soon, a shopping cart will be implemented as well, so you can easily browse my fine art portfolio and buy whatever you like in a very comfortable way.
The most time consuming task was the adaption of the layout to look identical in different operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac) and browser versions, such as IE 5,6,7 or Opera, Firefox and Safari for Mac. As you can imagine, the IE 5 & 6 were the winner in the category “troublemakers” :-) At least every problem was solved and I think that I have done a good job.
I also want to thank the guys and gals from Browsershots for their service, helping to test the page and sending screen shots from different operating systems and browser.

If you encounter some problems or odd things, please do not hesitate to report.
I’ll try to fix it as best as I can :-)

Thanks for your patience and report.

Cheers,
Vernon Trent

During the last few days I did some updates on the blog.

• an event calendar with the ability to sync the events to your “iCal” compatible application
• an amazon box with my suggestions. the box content will change regularly, so check back often :-) the links contain an amazon partner-ID, so every order over these links supports this site. many thanks for your support.
• you are now able to edit your comments. the time frame you are allowed to edit is set to 15 mins after the first post. just in case you have misspelled something or want to add something to your post.
• subscriptions are now redirected to Feedburner with the ability to subscribe to your email address, rss readers or embed a rss widget to your page :-)

I hope you’ll find these “enhancements” useful and if you discover some probs or bugs, please let me know.

Cheers,

Vernon Trent