Forums are now basically arranged

The phpBB forum system now has appopriate forums and topics created, as well as links that allows you to return here. Note that it's now called 'Wesley's Extended Forums' instead of 'Wesley's Experimental Forums'. I might need to replace the 'phpBB' logo on the top left, but only after the rest of the sites are moved out.

The multilingual problem

Let's see... for now I'm not doing Korean support on the site, but I saw that there was this multilingual plug-in. Maybe it could be feasible to support two languages on this site if this works as intended. But the encoding problem (apparently the 'English' setting corrupts Korean input, as noted eariler) must be resolved in the plug-in as well. I'll have to get around to this after getting the forums running.

Tool-Box.info now forwards to here

Okay, so the transition is official as of now. Wesley's Tool-Box is now serving from this new website.
There is a link on the right that still takes you to the old pages, but all the contents are here, so that link's just for reference (well, it'll be taken down eventually anyway).

A few changes: the introduction and profile pages are available, as well as a page that lists all the articles. Also, I've applied the previous/next page plug-in so it's easy to navigate between several pages of the old articles. This plug-in had a bug where it kept pointing to the first post I wrote (the 'This is where it starts anew' one) for the 'next' post, so I had to dive into the code and fix (well, it works for me, anyway).

Alright, I think I should do something about the forums now.

New design is now in place

After much mucking around with the CSS file, the new design for the site is complete... I think.

Featured in the left of the top banner is my trusty... tool box... from Canada. It came in handy in many occasions, including Xbox modding. You'll also notice three driver heads adorning the right side of each post. These micro-screwdrivers saw much action and is somewhat worn out, but I may not need replacement any time soon. (Update: I've lightened the colours to make them less distractive)

The overall tone of the site is now blue. I was thinking of greenish tint, but good lord, that looked ugly. The design for the previous website was predominantly orange-and-blue and well, that didn't exactly fly either. I hope this design is more palatable to wider audiences. Maybe not.

Anyways, I think I'll need to add a couple of static pages and then it's time to move to pepping up the forums.

Okay, that wasn't so bad...

The old news blurbs have been copied to here as well. The internal/external link restoration policy have been the same as the articles. The whole archive looks 'complete' now. Next up is to set up a custom design.

A few things to note:
- The whole 'old site' archive, in the new format, takes up exactly 100 pages total, spanning from 1997 to 2003.
- Most of the actual content were published between 2000 and 2002, which corresponds to my university undergrad days.
- There had been a failed attempt to revive the Tool-Box site back in 2003, which is when I completed Pyongyang Metro website. I guess I lost steam mid-way.
- The start of the hiatus period, around late 2002, is when I started using a PDA-phone (MITs-M330; acquired on 2002-10-23).
- There was a third Portable Athlon, created in January 2004. Had the site revival gone through it might have appeared on the Tool-Box site.

There are a whole bunch of ramblings and back stories that had happened between 2003 and 2005, and perhaps, they might actually make it to this website. Don't take my word for it, though...

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