I couldn’t help but come staring at my homepage, it all looked so dull. No shine, no nothing. So I decided to add some pink to the design… Okay, it’s not that big change, but still, it helped me to move on for a while ;) This design has been up since 2009 already!

Apart from that, I added some of my projects on the right side, which should have been there for a while, like Vie Nomade (my travel blog), Hello Chiang Mai! (my tourist/expat guide) and last but not least… Mashed Potatoes!

Mashed potatoes is actually brand new – born today. I used to have a tumblr account before, but I decided to self-host it and use WordPress instead. And since I didn’t have any time yet to create an original design for it, I just grabbed a beautiful WordPress theme from WooThemes: Crisp.

Back to basics… So Mashed Potatoes, it’s an intercultural and multilingual mix of links, images, videos and quotes of all sorts that I collect during my interwebs travels. Worthwile, or fun, or touching, or interesting, or helpful… Who said mashed potatoes is only about potatoes anyway? You can actually put a lot of spices and stuff into that to make it tasty.

If like me you would like to import your tumblr content to a WordPress blog, you may consider to use this neat plug-in: Feedwordpress. Worked like a charm! The Crisp theme from WooThemes is also quite cool – it includes a whole framework to handle your blog just like tumblr… But if you choose the importing way, be advised that you’ll have to do quite a few updates… at least, if you’re picky like me.

Oh yeah and on a side-note, if you can read french (or if you’re fond on Google Translation), I’ve had two articles published on two very cool blogs:

• Il n’y a que mon ordinateur qui ne change pas (Presse-Citron)
• 5 questions @ Corinne (Vues de Chine)

(They have some neat stuff at WooThemes, and if you decide to purchase something by following this link, I’ll even get a little share for it ;).

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My portfolio is now online, and it has been developped using WordPress (as a CMS) and little bits of Mootools.

I’ll most probably post about some of the various challenges I encoutered and techniques I used in the future, but for now, this article is blatantly dedicated to self-promote myself ;)

Many thanks for visiting!

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Second edition of my Friday Goodness, I’ve some nice stuff to share again ;)

• CMS: Zenphoto Gallery
  This nice CMS takes care of your photo or art gallery like a charm! Is really light and has nice functionalities (RSS, tags, search,…) Most of all, it is really simple to manage and customize!
• Educational: Six places Flash doesn’t belong
  This great article explains well the pitfalls of an heavy use of Flash. I couldn’t agree more! Flash is great, but using it with parcimony is even better.
• SEO: Cheat sheet
  SEOmoz offers a nice and complete SEO cheat sheet for web developpers.
• Inspirational: Face Hunter
  Clothing styles do definitely inspire me! “A man out and about in london and beyond: eye candy for the style hungry”
• WordPress: Completing the CMS
  An excellent selection of plug-ins to help customizing WordPress deeper.

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