About

This is my personal website. It went through several changes in terms of the site name and content, starting from my now-defunct domain, Akaliane.net. It used to be a site for my writing projects alone from general blogging to writing certain articles covering topics usually related to my current fandom and general pop culture. Today, this site simply became just a general personal website, a playground of sorts where I can get random content-wise while all the latest technical, internet-related blog entries are now housed in my portfolio site, ADRIMARIE.us.

I use this site as my hodgepodge playground of sorts, mainly for writing random stuff for writing practice and sharing some random general content that I may find interesting and worth sharing to the masses. I dabble with other websites hosted under other different domains, but all of them are still under construction. I hope that you may find something you may be interested in here and if you do, be sure to holler and let me know. I’ll see if I can have my focus towards your suggestion instead.

BAREBONES

• Open since 2008
• Recently moved to its own subdomain hosted by my portfolio site, ADRIMARIE.us

CURRENT THEME

I’m currently one of the beta testers of the upcoming Artisteer 4 RC2 program and out of scratch, I ended up having this layout. It was meant to be a temporary theme but after checking and debugging and debugging some more, I decided to keep it as my new official theme. Tumblr-style WP themes like the Wumblr were awesome, however it’s time for me to graduate from a modified pre-made template to something that has me all over it.

So, I have these fonts that has cute facial expressions of cats. Since I currently have three cats (little Blacksheep, little Mocha, and their mama, Tiger), I decided to take advantage of those cat fonts and use it as part of the main header. I used strictly Google Web Fonts for all the typography in this theme. I think it turned out really cool.

TOOLS

• Adobe Photoshop CS2
• Notepad++
• WordPress
• FileZilla
• Artisteer (when needed)
• SiteGrinder 3 Photoshop Plugin (when needed)
• Little Dancer – affordable and reliable hosting

RESOURCES

• W3 Schools
• Girls Who Geek (formerly Tutorialtastic)
• Colour Lovers
• Jem (for the smilies and other good stuff!)
• NoktahHitam (for the smilies)
• Various sozai sites which I’ve forgotten the URLs…
• Other respective sites I may forgot to mention

PLUGINS USED

  Akismet 2.5.6
» Automattic (url)
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from comment and trackback spam. It keeps your site protected from spam even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.

  All in One SEO Pack 1.6.15.3
» Michael Torbert (url)
Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog. Options configuration panel | Upgrade to Pro Version | Donate | Support | Amazon Wishlist

  Broken Link Checker 1.7
» Janis Elsts (url)
Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found.

  cforms 12.2
» Oliver Seidel (url)
cformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more. Please see ____HISTORY.txt for what’s new and current bugfixes.

  Formspring.me Widget 0.3
» Noah Coffey (url)
Adds a Formspring.me question box to your sidebar.

  Jetpack by WordPress.com 2.0.2
» Automattic (url)
Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.

  Link Library 5.5.9.1
» Yannick Lefebvre (url)
Display links on pages with a variety of options

  Link Manager 0.1-beta
» WordPress (url)
Enables the Link Manager that existed in WordPress until version 3.5.

  LiveJournal Crossposter 2.3.2
» Arseniy Ivanov, Evan Broder, Corey DeGrandchamp, Stephanie Leary (url)
Automatically copies all posts to a LiveJournal or other LiveJournal-based blog. Editing or deleting a post will be replicated as well.

  Q and A 1.0.5.1
» Raygun (url)
FAQ plugin for WordPress

  Rotating Links Widget 0.1
» Ján Bočínec (url)
Widget displays random links

  Social Media Widget 2.9.5
» Brian Freytag (url)
Adds links to all of your social media and sharing site profiles. Tons of icons come in 3 sizes, 4 icon styles, and 4 animations.

  Social Sharing Toolkit 2.1.1
» Marijn Rongen (url)
This plugin enables sharing of your content via popular social networks and can also convert Twitter names and hashtags to links. Easy & configurable.

  Stories Post Type 1.2.2
» Fran Ontanaya (url)
Adds a custom post type called Stories with a last stories widget, three taxonomies: Works, Sections and Licenses, and a shortcode to list all works.

  Text Hover 3.2.2
» Scott Reilly (url)
Add hover text to regular text in posts. Handy for providing explanations of names, terms, phrases, and acronyms mentioned in your blog.

  Ultimate Tables 1.1
» extendyourweb.com/wordpress (url)
Ultimate tables lets you create, manage and professional designs to your tables.

  WordPress Importer 0.6
» wordpressdotorg (url)
Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.

  WP-Footnotes 4.2.2
» Simon Elvery (url)
Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post.

  wp-Monalisa 2.5
» Hans Matzen (url)
wp-Monalisa is the plugin that smiles at you like monalisa does. place the smilies of your choice in posts, pages or comments.

  WP-PageNavi 2.83
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan & scribu (url)
Adds a more advanced paging navigation to your WordPress blog

  WP-PluginsUsed 1.50
» Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan (url)
Display WordPress plugins that you currently have (both active and inactive) onto a post/page.

  WP Show IDs 110709
» PriMoThemes.com / WebSharks, Inc. (url)
Simple, yet elegant. Shows IDs for Posts, Pages, Media, Links, Categories, Tags, and Users in the admin tables for easy access. Very lightweight. Also supports Custom Post Types / Taxonomies.

  WP Super Cache 1.2
» Donncha O Caoimh (url)
Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

  WP to Twitter 2.5.2
» Joseph Dolson (url)
Posts a Tweet when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using your chosen URL shortening service. Rich in features for customizing and promoting your Tweets.

  WP Updates Notifier 1.3.2
» Scott Cariss (url)
Sends email to notify you if there are any updates for your WordPress site. Can notify about core, plugin and theme updates.

There are 38 plugins used: 25 active plugins and 13 inactive plugins.