The New Look of MIKEYIP.COM

Since mikeyip.com was born in 2007 when it started off with the basic WordPress template, it has gone through approx. 4 changes to it’s look with 1 looking like this where some of my photos was showcased at the top while everything else is just your usual blog but it is quite troublesome whenever I want to update the 3 images at the top of the site.

Back in 2010, I put this site through another revamp and it started to look like this image below where through a simple java script, I get the header to rotate like a gallery featuring 6 of my latest work and I could easily change the images just by replacing the files on the server. It feels much more smoother and professional in a certain manner but it wasn’t enough…

Something was lacking from it all and it was early January when I sat down with a few friends and started talking about my own site. They say it was high time for my site to be much more than just a blog as I actually use it as a promotional tool as well for my ‘business’ and this was further reinforced by some emails I received from fellow photographers from US and England. So a week of slouching in front of the computer staring at all the codes and stuff like that along with my designer. I hope that this could be it! It’s 2011, Feb 1st and I would like to say mikeyip.com is READY for it’s  next phase in life! There’s still a few bugs here and there but that could be worked out slowly while the major component is all up and running.

What do you think? I’ve separated my site into several categories through the navigation. With easy access to my portfolio, a normal blog and another just for Travel and Food related stuff as I’ve been bugged for some time to set up a dedicated one just for my travel and food related postings (and I know if I set up another blog outside of this, it won’t get updated that often… case in point is zique.org).

There’s also a contact form for clients and advertisers to reach me, it is still buggy but I hope the form would be fixed before Chinese New Year. With the year of the Metal Rabbit just 2 days away, here it is. The NEW mikeyip.com! Feel free to browse around and let me know what you think by commenting in my post.

New Layout & Theme

I’ve finally decided that once and for all, it’s time to change the way my site looks. After alot of browsing around for that right theme, I finally found one that I feel would be suited to what I wanted to do.

Here’s how my old theme looked like, this theme has served me for a good 3 years now and as we move into the fourth year of this blog (I started the blog in October 6, 2006, on my birthday), I decided that a change definitely is on hand. But it was quite hard cause I was unable to find ‘the right’ theme that I should use. (more…)

New Stuffs for 2009

Just a quick one here as I’ve just updated my blog’s wordpress to the new 2.7 “Coltrane”.

I’ve also taken this opportunity to change the theme. You can say that for 2009. I’d like to kick off the year with something new. In your honest opinion, what do you think?

As most of you know, I’m a wordpress noob so I try not to mess around with my blog’s theme and stuff too much in case I mess it up and start asking for help.

Originally, the blog’s theme looked like this and I had it on for a year now. Just figured that it’s a good time to go for a change. That’s why now it looked like what you see it. Do let me know what you think of this new theme.