Hey reader, long time no see ha? I’m sorry about that, but I was so busy. As you might know, this site (my portfolio & blog) is new. At the beginning of this year, I designed a water-color themed design. But like many designers, I got bored of it and I wanted to change it. But don’t worry, if you like that design, because I’m willing to play on it a little bit more and give it away from here for people who want to use it.

As for the new design, as you can see everything is clean & basic. The main focus on my site is now my Twitter. That’s because when I don’t have the time to blog, at least my tweets will be updated. Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter, I tweet delicious things!

Also; my FFFFound, Vimeo & Flickr accounts are going to give you my latest discoveries, videos & photos on the homepage.

If you click on the Works link, you’ll see that I used the Twitter bar to show my portfolio. Creating this section on Wordpress was kind of hard. Since there are lots of elements on my portfolio, if I had used the default post listing function, visitors would have to download all the portfolio images when they visited my site. So with a little hack, I put all the portfolio items into a textarea field. When you click on the Works link, a simple JavaScript code gets this textarea’s value and creates portfolio section with some jQuery effects.

Kitchen

Here are the Wordpress plugins that I’m using on erenemre.com:

• WP JS GZIP’s JavaScript files.
• WP CSS GZIP’s CSS files.
• GZIP Output GZIP’s Html files
• wp-typogrify Prettifies quotes, ampersand and etc.
• Twitter for Wordpress
• flickrRSS
• ffffoundRSS
• vimeorss
• WP-PageNavi Changes Wordpress’ default pagination.
• Akismet All your spam belong to me!
• Subscribe To Comments
• Google XML Sitemaps Maybe works, who knows.

Did you like my header fonts? They are; Auto1, Auto2 & Matrix. Yeah, I love them too.

Finally, I’m a big fan of CSS sprites and I love this tool.

P.S. Are you familiar with consoles? Did you played Contra a lot? Spoiler-o-konami!