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2010
db2010
Welcome to db2010!
Built entirely on beta software, it’s so unstable it’s going to break your world!
Not only is built using WordPress 3.0 beta 2 now on WP3, but ZenPhoto pre1.3 alpha the shiny new ZenPhoto 1.3 as well as CSS3, which in a way is still beta too. Oh boy!
This is a complete redevelopment of the previous template, “Seraph” whose rounded corners and other various design elements were all made using images. This time it’s all CSS3. If you don’t have a CSS3-enabled browser, no dramas, you just won’t see drop shadows or rounded corners.
2010
First Theme Live
As I mentioned last time, I’ve been working on creating alternate stylesheet themes for the new WordPress template. Today, the first one is available.
dBaines.com – First Theme (Green)
You can find the theme switcher in the top left corner, opposite the search bar.
If you’re using either IE6 or IE7, you won’t see it. Instead you will see a message to upgrade your browser. You should probably do it 
The themes are also available as alternate stylesheets, selectable from your browser’s stylesheet menu.
I hope to develop a couple more over the next few months. I don’t really want them to be too different, just to give a different set of colours to the existing template.
2009
Shiny & New
Welcome to the new look of dBaines.com 
dBaines.com 200910 "Seraphim"
I’m on the fence if I’ll continue using this new logo. I think, like the last logo redesign, I’ll just keep it until I make a new template. At which point I’ll promptly return by to Old Bessy.
I do like how flexible this logo is though. I’ve even developed an animation for it which I’ll hopefully chuck in to the animation gallery soon.
Everything should be exactly where it used to be, unless you’re looking for my design work, which has been shuffled around and split in to several new folders. Splitting them up
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2009
Shiny
Massive changes to dBaines.com 
I’ve wanted to incorporate some new features of  Wordpress 2.7 and 2.8, and while I was at it I figured I might as well revamp the entire website.
- New URL Structure
I’ve moved WordPress to the root directory of dbaines.com now and have enabled pretty permalinks.
This was a real pain to get going because for some reason, no matter what permissions I gave the .htaccess file, WordPress just wouldn’t write to it. So after a lot of trial and error I eventually got it working by manually entering in the WordPress permalink code. It still isn’t writing to it, so every time I make
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