I was home all day. Since I’m putting off all homework until tomorrow, I got some creative juice flowing. *hehe* And I’ve been planning to create a new layout anyway. This song I Believe in Dreams by Janno Gibbs served as my inspiration. It is such a wonderful song, and the melody is so sweet.

I believe in dreams
I believe in miracles
I believe that toy balloons
Can reach and touch the moon

The stock photos are taken from Stock Exchange, my personal favorite. Blended through Adobe Photoshop CS. I like it a lot.

I was inspired to make an angel style yesterday. The photo from Stock Exchange is originally black and white. I edited it to become lilac - my favorite color. The angel in the photo reminded me of myself these days. I feel really contemplative and kind of moody. The quote “I’m carrying the entire world today, it’s too big for me. So dear Lord, I was wondering if you could carry me.” was taken from the book Stories for a Teen’s Heart 2, a present from my hunbun. It really made an impression on me. Most especially because I just used that quote as an ending to an essay entitled “Why Do I Believe In God?” I love the simplicity of this layout and its colors.

Oh, if you prefer the previous layouts, just click on the links under the style submenu.

After venting all my frustrations because of initial upgrading errors, I finally turned my WP 1.0.2 to WP 1.2. Yey! I did spend some time though fixing the index page and adding some plugins. There’s so many new plugins available here.

These are some of my favorite features from Word Press 1.2 Mingus:

• Sub-categories: Categories can be arranged hierarchically and infinitely deep. Multiple categories combined with sub-categories gives Word Press the most comprehensive taxonomy system of any blogging software available.
• Automatic Thumbnail Creation System: Word Press has a refined upload feature that automatically creates thumbnails any size you want.
• New plugin architecture: The new plugin architecture simplifies modifying or extending Word Press’ features. Plugins can now hook into nearly every action Word Press does.
• Post preview: Near-instant previews while writing or editing articles help you proofread and make improvements before finally presenting your work of art to the world.

You can view the entire Changelog here.

I just downloaded wp-stats.php a few days ago. I finally modified it to suit my layout. You can view here or through the statistics menu under meta in the sidebar. I did encounter a bug though. All the 10 Recent Comments and 10 Most Commented Posts were invalid. They all pointed to the date today.

Ex: Invalid Link instead of Valid Link
(I did a mod_rewrite to my .htaccess file some time ago so my permalinks appear this way: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ )

Oh, after a few tweaks here and there, I finally figured out how to get around that problem by adding get_permalink($post_id). Yey!