As the Spring Festival is approaching, I have put together a new theme named Spring Festival for this special occasion. As what you see this site is now on this theme.

The Spring Festival is more commonly known in the West as Chinese New Year and it is also an important occasion for all families to get-together. Similar to the importance of the Christmas Day for the westerners, the Spring Festival is the most important celebration for Chinese people. The Chinese New Year is following the lunar system, and for this year of 2007, the New Year’s day will be on the 18th of February. The new theme uses more red and golden colors which are lucky colors in Chinese tradition symbolizing happiness and wealth. I hope you like the theme, and you can download it here:

Spring Festival Theme for WordPress (840)

Spring Festival WordPress Theme Demo

This is actually my first theme for WordPress, and it is based on the works of many other excellent and beautiful themes by other people. Credits should duly given to them. I hope this theme works fine on your system. It has been tested with WordPress 2.1 on both Firefox and IE. To be honest, I am not a code savvy, so I can only give limited support.

Some simple tips on the installation of the theme is included in the readme file of the download. The theme is also widget ready for the two columns on the left side of the index page. Feel free to download it, use it and modify it. If you have any suggestions and comments, please also feel free to contact me.

Happy Spring Festival!

On this occasion of Thanksgiving Day, I would like to thank everybody for your kind support. In a month’s time, it will be a new Christmas. I wish all of you A Very Merry Christmas And A Happy and Prosperous New Year.

The theme of the blog has been updated specially for the up-coming Christmas and the New Year, and I hope you like it and enjoy reading here. Please feel free to leave comments.

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This post gives some interesting thoughts on the question of permission to put a blog in your blogroll:

… put bloggers on your blogroll that you sincerely recommend, whether or not they link back to you. Do it because you want to, not because you want something in return. Do it because you can honestly say “this is worth reading!” Remember, they are a reflection of you and your blog, so think through their inclusion.

And,

You can put anyone and anything you like on your blogroll. You can make up your own guidelines and standards for inclusion, or feature a totally diverse collection. As far as I’m concerned, there are no rules, no etiquette, and no reason to ask permission to put a blog on a blogroll. Can you think of any?

Excellent post on blogging culture!

[ blogroll ] A list of blogs, usually placed in the sidebar of a blog, that reads as a list of recommendations by the blogger of other blogs.  This definition of [ blogroll ] is from Google. 

[ bookmark ] A marker that uniquely identifies a row within a set of rows.  This definition of [ bookmark ] is from Google.