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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 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!