The K Experience

A lot has changed within the month. The main thing and the first thing was the look of the site. Wanting to keep it simple, I looked around for a good template choosing JA Koniga.

I found this way too busy as I wanted to have people concentrate on the content. So I took to getting rid of a lot of the colour, the pictures, the formatting and all the other stuff, requiring a lot of CSS investigation and manipulation. I also added an extra right column to cater for the RSS feeds and ads. I think it's sometimes more difficult to get rid of stuff than it is to create stuff, expecially when you didn't create it in the first place. It then changed to this

before settling with the current design, which i'm quite happy with.

As well as changing in design, it has improved in position on search engines too, appearing at the top in google and yahoo searches when typing in "The K Experience". See this article for what it was like a month ago.

Including my first ever post about the Daily Yamazaki by my old school in Takaoka, I have written 31 journal entries (shouldn't really include the web videos, but I will anyway), and 7 galleries.

I've always wanted to put something on the web, and have had a web presence since about 2000 when I made my first ever website The KAOSSS Website which was created with HTML written purely in notepad and tested in Netscape (pictures created with Paintshop pro 4 i think with the help of winamp visualization). I didn't do much with it, and was meant mainly for finding out what I could do with the space that the internet service provider gave me for free. It was fun though, and got a fair few hits. The name, a variation of "chaos" was created from the initials of my name KAO followed by the first initial of my fathers name S, repeated 3 times for effect.

My next website, K's Photo Website is still live and was the original website on this domain okeiweb.com. I will talk about the origin of the domain name "okeiweb" in another journal entry (if i remember).

The K Experience is my latest site, and is really a mixture of the two previous sites, using more modern web authoring tools, namely Joomla with PHP SQL and Apache, the last three are all taken care of by the hosting company Heart Internet, to whome I am most grateful, for the excellent support. The experience to do this on Joomla has come from three other Joomla websites that I have done, two of which were not for myself, but are pretty good if I do say so myself.

Webdesign, and authoring is still a learning process for me, as I always try and strive to improve. But for this one I want to concentrate on the content derived from the pictures and video footage that I have collected from my various escapades. That is and will remain the main focus of this online journal for as long as it exists.

Well I hope you all like it, let's see how it evolved from here, and I hope you enjoy the jazz.

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Nhuong Son  - Congrats! |01-21-2008 16:36:36 Congratulation on your one year. I hope that I can keep blogging for that long. I just got started. Reply | Quote

K  - One Year? |01-22-2008 04:14:19 Actually, it's only been one month. Maybe a bit premature celebrating after one month, but hey, I'm proud. And it's always good to have an excuse to celebrate :) Reply | Quote

Rose  - Time Flys |01-27-2008 09:15:12 Happy Birthday. Before you know it, it will be a year. ;-) Reply | Quote

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