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New blog design

Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Sacha Chua

Well, it’s still really the Networker-10 theme underneath, but I’ve stripped away a lot of the CSS that made my site look heavy, moved things around, added some quick links along the top, and finally got around to making sure wp-cache worked. The site should be nice and zippy again. Check it out at sachachua.com!

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1. Simon Law // May 25, 2008 at 11:31 pm

   I’m not really sure it’s nice and zippy. Firebug reports at least 15 seconds before Wordpress responds to the first request.

2. Sacha Chua // May 26, 2008 at 7:18 am

   Hmm, the initial redirect from sachachua.com to sachachua.com/wp takes a bit of a while. Odd…

3. rjh // May 26, 2008 at 8:06 am

   Also, check with “Yslow”. It has various nags about things to improve. (It’s somewhere on Yahoo.)

   One interesting quirk is that I tried disabling your Javascript (NoScript) and it got a lot faster to load. There is nothing noticeably broken, so you get taken off the whitelist. Whatever dependency you used to have is gone. I prefer this. Requiring JS is hostile to the disabled.

   Update: oops. Looks like JS is needed to comment.

4. Sacha Chua // May 26, 2008 at 9:49 am

   I noticed that AJAX comments was slow, so I’ve disabled the plugin. =) Things should be marginally better now. Also, I’m continuing to tweak my Apache and MySQL settings. Who knew that 256MB could go so fast?

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