At last I’ve finished updating the blog and, as you will see, I’ve changed the template. I did so because I found the perfect template: Mandingo. A theme incredibly customizable and without having to touch a single line of code of the template’s key files. This template has been prepared so you can introduce the amendments in a section of the options page specifically prepared for this, among other wonders: SEO optimization , several color schemes , dynamic layout … in short, better going to it’s page and try the demo. As always, the high customization allowed was not enough for me and I’ve changed it a little bit more. And finally I was with two different designs in my hands for the blog. And here is why the title of this post. That’s because I like both so much that I don’t know which one use …. because they are totally opposite. One is “modern”, based on the scheme “orange” included with Mandingo and the other is more similar to the one in my old blog (few post below this one), and is a completely new layout (another one of the wonders of Mandingo, you can add your own schemes).

The fact is that I can’t get decided ….. because I like both and opposite poles. I use watercolors and the computer, I like to illustrate fairy tales and to do interfaces designs, I like the Lord of the Rings and Iron Man, classical music and NIN, fantasy and scifi …… you get the point, don’t you?

So I ask you, the ones that are reading this: which one you like best?. Below this post you have screenshots of both designs, “Modern”, the orange one and “Vintage” the other. And because I know that sometimes you don’t have the time to write a comment, I have included a new plugin WP_Polls so I can show a poll so you just have to choose one option and vote.

So …… Which one do you prefer?

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Well, apart from the “joke” of the title that probably won’t be understood if you’re not spanish (and probably they won’t understand either) I have already done most of the updating. I’m up to date with the version of Wordpress thanks to the magnificent Wordpress plugin Wordpress Automatic Update. In addition I’ve added some new plugins and I’m in a try-out period to be sure nothing fails. Fortunately the theme fSpring Widgets by Fredrik Fahlstad even with my modifications, that let’s face it, are not expert ones, works perfectly (as far as I can tell) with 2.51 version of Wordpress

Now the only thing left to be done is to replace the Babel plugin I was using until now to write this blog in two languages, with the xLanguage plugin that I discovered recently and seems to allow the blog to be totally bilingual, translating all: categories, pages, Feeds, etc.. and not only the posts. The only problem is that it seems far more complicated to implement and I am still studying it because I have to add  some localization files and don’t know exactly how many nor where (the only one I have is the spanish one that I put on /wp-content/languages/). Well….. everything  for internationalization.

The new plugins I used and I’m testing are:

• Admin Drop Down Menu - by Ozh, which allows a much more comfortable dashboard for the administration of the blog.
• Google XML sitemaps - To create a site map (obviously) that is more friendly with the search engines (essential)
• Maintenance Mode - To don’t drive you crazy when I’m making changes to the blog.
• WP-EditArea- by the Spanish guy anieto, it allows a much more friendly edition of the theme archives inside the wordpress environment, acting as a code editorWell, That’s it for now, I’ll keep you informed

I haven´t updated my blog for almost 6 months now. My absence during most of that time was forced, since due to problems with my ISP I was four months without internet, four months full of promises, annoyances and scandalous increase of the telephone invoice. In the end this was solved changing operator. Just when I could return to connect I discovered that the version of Wordpress had changed and this,plus the enormous work load and lack of free time were delaying the updating (and not by lack of desire). But now I’ve decided to put blog up to date, which will take some time since there are so many changes to do: to update the CMS, plugins, even template won’t probabley work with the new version (not counting the many changes I’ve done myself to the template), so I request patience, at least to the only reader who, incomprehensibly, has not eliminated my feed. I’ll be back …..

I’m afraid I’m wrong by a century but, you know, what counts is the intention

HAPPY 2008 TO ALL!

Finally, after waiting for a long time, the new Nokia Internet Tablet N810 is in my hands. I was about to buy the N800 when Nokia announced the launch of the new model, so I decided to wait (have been two veeeeery long months). By the end it has been launched in Spain (almost a month later than in the United States), but only 30 units were available in the Nokia online shop and have already been exhausted by now (if I was not the first to order one…)

Finally, after a mistake from Ups that turned a delivery of 2 days in a wait of more than a week, it has arrived. And the first thing I´ve installed (after some “playing” you know ) has been Maemo Wordpy, an offline client for Wordpress created by Daniel Yerga that lets you write entries in the tablet to upload them to the blog later. A great program that, for what I´ve read will be even better,it even permits resize of images before uploading (well,by html tags). So this whole “brick” text has served to test this program, and create and upload this entry from my N810, so as you can see it works very well. And I am sooooo happy with my new acquisition

Note: Images aren’t so good, but I wanted to try how my E65+N810 combo works. The results are pretty good. It’s a good mobile solution