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Update & Site Update: Back, updated site look, better navigation – v 1.0

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Hello again everyone! :) It has been 21 days since my last post. Thank you for waiting. I really appreciate it. As you may have noticed for the past few days, the site was undergoing some changes. I wanted to change the site look before heading on towards the content that the design supports.

2 brief topics in this post:

My trip:

My trip to the south went from being an almost potential disaster to being a successful meeting with Ronald on one end and a missed opportunity to meet Valerie on the other, and a few other things.

I will be posting some details about the events in the next few days, in addition to catching up to a lot of other things from the past also.

Site update:

In addition to being back here, I have implemented some changes around the site as you may have already noticed. I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and unfortunately, a lot of things broke. I then decided to change the theme all together and find a new one. For the first time in changing history, The Reasoner has entered the version 1 phase in terms of design.

  • New visual style
  • Different coloring system
  • Different, updated navigation
  • Different pages have different, unique elements

This change can be considered a little bit of a major change compared to the last update, v 0.95. As of today, not moderating comments has turned out to be a good decision. Slowly, a few spam comments are getting through. At this time, I find the benefits that the readers and myself receive in terms of getting comments published quickly to outweigh the drawbacks of having a spam comment or two sneak in from time to time. The entire time I was away, about 20 or so spam comments go through, if memory serves me correctly.

The numbering system is a random system I chose in order to make it easier for both myself and you to keep track of changes. The latest change is v 1.0 . You may notice bugs or things that can be improved. Please let me know if you have any comments, questions or suggestions of any kind. You may notice the font style or size being weird, the coloring to be undesirable in some areas, the navigation confusing somewhere, the page looking weird or too wide in some areas, or something else. In any case, please let me know so I can try to improve things. :) Thank you.

If anyone wants the previous design back, please let me know and I will try to see if I can try to have the previous layout available as an option also.

I would like to thank everyone for this, specially 3 people:

1 : Vera

Without Vera, this new rollout would not be possible, literally. She spent a lot of time from pausing her busy life and studies to look at my site and offer several suggestions, comments, and to also point out several bugs. Vera’s original coloring choice was a different color, which I hope I can implement soon, or offer as a choice. :) Thanks Vera!

2 : Valerie

Do it, just do it.” That’s Valerie. I had to do this because Valerie kept saying the same thing so I could start implementing and stop the plan-only mode. Thanks Valerie!

3 : Ronald

Ronald looked at the site and provided last minute input before the new look went live. Thanks Ronald!

If I forgot to mention you, please let me know and I will not only thank you, I will also update this list and include your name. Unless I am missing something, I kept in touch via e-mail with almost everyone. I will be getting back to comments within the next 48 hours.

The original posts and updates are included below. Thank you, and let us resume things now. :)

——First update to the post on September 19th, 2007—–

Hi again everyone.

I got back from my Los Angeles trip last Monday, and now it’s time to fly again. Things are hectic as usual, and emergency is slowly becoming my middle name, I think. I have to rush around like a squirrel, or hopefully a rabbit, to get things done before my next flight;I am flying to the southern states tonight, specifically Alabama.

About the hecticness, American Airlines first lost my luggage from my last flight, and when I managed to get it back, many of my things like clothes are missing, and some other people’s stuff is in my bag. I have to run around between two airports to try to sort things out before my next flight, which is very creepily with American Airlines also.

Some of the upcoming articles will include “Ten reasons to avoid American Airlines”, “How to lose almost $10k in 2 days because of immature friends”, and “The headaches bestowed on me by the tourism industry.”

I have gotten back to everyone’s emails by now, I hope. If you have not yet received a response from me, simply contact me and I will get back to you by Sunday evening. I will probably be meeting Valerie and Ronald. Let’s see how it goes. :)

Regards,

Bes

********* Original Post on September 13th, 2007, 10:49 pm PST ************

Traveling – September 13th, 2007 weekend

Hi everyone.

It’s time for emergency traveling again. From tomorrow morning, I will be traveling to Los Angeles. I will be traveling again next week [details on that next week]. I may have some prewritten articles to be published during the weekend. I will try to get back to all emails by Tuesday evening, September 17th. In the meantime, please feel free to contact me on my phone, specially if you are in Los Angeles or Orange County area and want to meet.

Once I get back, I have to then get ready for my next trip for next weekend. I will try to update this post with something more. Thank you everyone. :)

PS: Thanks to Valerie’s repeated persuasion, as a small test, I may be updating random, useless/useful things on Bes Z’s Twitter via my phone, which you can see on the sidebar of this very page also. That way, any interested people [hopefully they exist] can be aware of what’s going on. If you think it’s lame or something, let me know and I will probably remove it when I get back. :)

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