Finally the redesign of TheAkiba is completed. Currently running on the new V4 theme. Guess I am just tired. Have studied tons of websites before the idea coming out. Thanks to Tutsplus network, the main development of the code was done and I was able to finish coding in time. Although not many new ideas came to the theme while the features were increased. This is not an original design but an redesign based on the framework and layout of Tutsplus Network. Will continue digging into the detail and furnishing the look in the coming days. Right now just enjoy the feeling of satisfaction.

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Greeting to all the friends. It’s new year! Guess is snowing heavily in Ohio but I am right now at Las Vegas watching all kinds of splendid shows and fancy hotels and casinos. Guess gambling is all about picking the right machine and clicking with your lucky finger. Did the gamble the first time and won $20 with only $1. You will never know what will happen when you had put $100 into that machine and that’s why I don’t like gambling a lot.

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Still busy with the university stuffs and am packing up my clothes for the flight next month. Kind of being lazy these days and the site lacks updates for a while, in part of my preparing and reviewing of my college courses (I almost forget them all!), in part of the high usage of the server resource. Tired of looking into the code for optimization, I bought a new hosting plan last week. And today I moved the site to the new hosting company that is hotly discussed these days: WPWebHost.

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Regular visitors may have noticed that the site updated not very often these days. The point is that I’ve been busy working on the application of my graduated study program in US and finally got the offers. Still working on the visa part but it seems that I finally got a chance to go to US and try things that is totally different from my past life. Would very much like your advices on studying aboard and how to survive in cold weather (the school of one of my offers is located in Ohio) ^^

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Some regular visitors may notice that the thumbnails of the site is much smaller than before. Just received an E-mail and a call from my hosting provider informing that the script used to generate thumbnails using up too much resources and the server suffers. Still fixing the problem and it appears to be some errors in the caching process. Anyway, am using custom fields to display post thumbnails which were used as thumbnails in the Dannychoo Theme.

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After a couple of weeks on the theme, the second version of TheAkiba is launched. The blog of TheAkiba was set up September 2008 and among these several months I have switched several different themes which now I consider as inadequate for the coming design work. Inspired by Dannychoo’s theme (old version, new layout), I created a Wordpress theme and used it for a few months. Everything seems fine but friends keep on talking about the lack of an identity of a website and to me, a lack of a sense of recognition. For sure, building things basing on other people’s work rarely seems fine to me, and that’s why I hurried for the second theme which aim to discover my own sense of design and aesthetics.

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Friends may notice that the site keeps on changing from time to time. This is because I’m doing some experiments. Remember several friends mentioned in the comment about the identity and style of one’s own, and I’d like to think it over and over. And it’s about time to jump out of the box labeled “Dannychoo” ^^.

I’d like to create a new theme for TheAkiba and at the same time make the website focus more on Anime, even considering remove the unrelated categories. As for the theme, I haven’t started to design the layout but I’m keeping searching on the net and browsing different kinds of sites and tried to get inspired. Will add some new elements to the new theme and remove the unrelated contents.

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I really want to announce the return of the Anime Gallery but I’d rather keep it stay low. The gallery has disappeared for a while due to the pressure from my previous hosting server. As you know I have transferred all the files to the new hosting server yesterday, and meanwhile I’m working on several different things. And firstly, the return of the gallery.

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Well, maybe you haven’t noticed about that but TheAkiba is now on Lunarpages! I bought the hosting last Saturday and the account was approved yesterday. Transfering files from my old Dreamhost server to the new Lunarpages server cost little time and I finished all the work in less than one day. And when I woke up this morning I backuped and restore the database in Lunarpages and then modified my Name Server to the Lunarpages one. And in less than four hour, TheAkiba is totally transferred and now we are on Lunarpages.

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What is Spring Festival? It is the traditional start of a new year of Chinese people, or you may consider it as another Happy New Year ^^ But I think most of the people are quite getting know about China and her culture, not only in a economy perspective, but a worldwide realization. China’s population of Internet users is now over 298 million and has passed the United States last year to become the world’s largest. Just wonder how many Chinese visitors are poking around the site. But no matter whether you are one of them, I’d like to say, and to all those friends out there, Happy Spring Festival, and thank you for your support!

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