I’ve just finished work on a new website for AiRealistic, an aerial theater company. I’ll let the site explain (hopefully!) what that means.

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Welcome back!

No, you haven’t clicked on the wrong bookmark – this is the one and only What-What.com; I’ve just given it a long-overdue theme update.

[Warning: Geek-out area starts here] After scouring for hours on the Wordpress Themes area, trying theme after theme both there and here – even going so far as to tweak various aspects of the html to fit the basic tenets of my visual style for this blog, such as proper width (for fitting photos and videos), sidebar composition, removal/obfuscation of various linklove items, header resizing and so on – I finally (on page 17, of 34) came across this theme, called “Ahimsa”, which struck me as being almost precisely the look I had going with the previous theme (called “Borderline Chaos”, may it rest in bits and peaces), but in a brighter, rounder and way-more web 2.0 friendly package. I think it fits so well that I’m even leaving in the coder’s linklove (see bottom right)! I also kept a few other themes in case this one begins to grate in a few weeks. [Geek-out area ends]

The big thing that this update allows me to do is use Widgets, which are various sidebar items, in a much more flexible way. And if you don’t like that sidebar, you can even hide it by clicking on the label at its top left. Sweetness.

The last thing to know is that the theme is optimized for Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Sorry Explorer, you’re way too square!

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UPDATE: The masses (well, a measly 22 of you – God this is pointless, isn’t it?) have spoken! The What-What favicon winner is ‘Glasses Stencil’! It should appear in your browser/favorites menu shortly. If not, you may have to clear the browser cache (a.k.a. ‘Delete Temporary Internet Files’).

“Hi, I’m the What-What dot com favicon!”

Previously:

So it’s long past due for me to add a “favicon” to this site. What is a favicon, you ask? A favicon is the little icon that appears next to the web address of a website, as well as on your favorites list. It adds a small visual distinctiveness to an otherwise cluttered mess of text-based links.

See some examples of where favicons go by clicking here and here.

I have gone through a lot of my photographs from over the years and come up with a few ideas, all of which I feel describe myself and/or this website in some way. Vote for your favorite, or if none of them really mean anything to you, suggest a concept in the comments and I’ll see what I can do.

Here are the candidates:

“He-No” face – a Japanese way of drawing a face using hiragana

“Rebel stencil” – from Kuta Beach, Bali

“Glasses stencil” – from above the tunnel in Budapest

“Lenin Sun” – from Statue park, Budapest

“Lotus” – from somewhere in Japan

“Fish graffiti” – from Padova, Italy

“Peace rap” – from somewhere in Romania

One thing to keep in mind is that a favicon is displayed usually at 16×16 pixels, or one-quarter the size of what you see here. That’s the reason I’ve kept them so small.

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