There goes the era of using web-safe fonts; Arial, Verdana, etc. Now my fave sanserif font for body copy: Varela, Muli, Open Sans. Currently this blog is using Muli font, just changed from Arial. It’s looking so good, I can stare at my blog all day long!

Because I’ve just changed layout, again. Still in pink color, more pink in fact. Except this time it isn’t a custom-made theme, no time for that, but a FREEmium theme that we just released at simplyWP in conjunction to October – breast cancer awareness month.

Proudly supporting own’s product and a good cause.

If you look at the right sidebar, you’ll notice the banner of my new venture. Targeting to launch the project by the end of this year (latest), hope I can keep up with the timeline.

Oh, to keep up with the trend, this theme is also made to have a responsive layout design (available for premium version). Try resize your browser or view it in tablet/smartphone, and you’ll get to see the responsive side.

Download OctoPink WordPress theme from simplyWP or purchase the premium version at $4.99 only!

Last year we told ourselves that we’ll have a few new start-ups this year, fulfilling our many more passion in life. Okay, read the sentence back, I said “A Few”, not just “One”. Oh so ambitious eh?

I even wrote that down in my new year list early this year. But instead of “A Few”, I wrote “At least another”. Lowering my expectation and give myself rooms to not feel bad if I don’t have “A Few”.

Well, look at us now. It’s August, half of the year is gone and we only have less than 5 months for 2011. Yet we don’t have any new start-up yet. All of them is forever in progress. Not good.

I tried to comfort myself, at least I did restructuring both sites that we have now and the business plan is clearer for the future. But it doesn’t cover the fact that we fail to launch new stuff.

So, this is the month of making things happen. Either now or keep on delaying.

My progress so far, creating coming soon page. I made two kinds, but decide to stick with the soft approach instead of the bold one. This is something that I’ve been wanting to do since 2 years ago, but the I-am-not-good-enough mentality killed it.

This post itself is to remind me that I have decided to take my 1st step. Keep this kind of momentum and bring it til the finish line.

• Logo: still using the same shape, except it’s no longer white-teal color filling but blackboard texture and reduce the amount of floral design.
• Menu Navigation: From top, I moved it to left sidebar. Oh, the whole left sidebar is static, only content will move as you scroll down.
• Footer: a glimpse of about me, my personal projects/start-up with awesome partners and categories.

Let’s take a time machine back to see how wiehanne.com looked like back in 2008, that’s when I started to play around with my blog design.

It was mostly dominated by pink pink pink. In 2009 I even went for a darker pink, but changed to softer pink + more white in 2010.

Portfolio page is updated as well.

P.S. It marks my 5 years of blogging with this domain name, yay!

In terms of personal life, my boy and I have been discussing and weighing a lot of life aspects. Decided to make the change as well, which will take place in about 3 months from now. We are super exciting! If you are thinking about baby, scratch that idea please. Hehe.. It’s something bigger than purchasing TV mounts.

In term of business, we are in the midst of re-design and re-align both simplyWP and Zhng Design Studio; from the strategy aspect and also the interface. Time to really apply what we’ve learnt during the advertising course!

Oh btw, I just had my first online interview. You can read my insightful and inspirational stories *cough cough* on my client’s site, Between Us Girls.

In the process, I became one of simplyWP.net?s most particular customers as well as great colleagues with my designer, though separated by thousands of miles. Yes the internet has spawned personal and work relationships, but I would have never thought I would be working with someone in Malaysia, yes Malaysia.

Sachkia is residing in UK Virgin Islands and I’m in Malaysia, yet we get to work together thanks to internet and email. This (read: work with people around the world) is also one of the thing that I like from my job. It offers so many possibilities for me.

Happy Wednesday!