The melon

Welcome to exomel! Exomel is my new blog/portofolio in to replace ifiz - the french-canadian english blog.

The blog is now powered by WordPress, which is actually more powerful than Cutenews, although Cutenews is pretty flexible and able to be “heavy-modded”.

Also, maybe you noticed it, I got a “real” domain name. At this time, I had to buy one, because if I want to use it as a professional website, maybe in few years, I had to buy a .com (or a .anything, but .com is nifty). I’m now hosted with DreamHost.

I had the word “melon” in my head for a couple of weeks, and I wanted it in my domain name. I chose “exotic melon” -> “exomel” because it sounds cool, and I got a very positive feedback when I said it to the people I know.

Now, for the sidebar. There is the “Fresh” section which lists all the recents exomel entry. There is also the “Linked” section which is a kind of Blogroll. The “Plugged” is a respawn of my “Daily Picks” section in ifiz. And the “Not so exotic” section displays the current weather in Quebec City.

Things to do (DONE!):

  • Validate XHTML and CSS on every page…
  • Redirect ifiz to exomel
  • Uploading the wallpapers
  • Build a complete “Linked” section list
  • Fixing some weather bugs… Those damn <li> tags!
  • Experimenting things with my domain ;)

Finally, please update your bookmarks, although I should ask qoa if he could make a redirection from ifiz.

So, that was the first entry.

There are 14 comments yet. Don't be shy.

1. On December 18th, 2004 at 12:56 pm, brainrain said :brainrain's gravatar

Congratulation with the new domain and hosting, ifiz! good design too!

2. On December 18th, 2004 at 4:06 pm, ext said :ext's gravatar

Wow, nice thing… but as usual, the fonts are a little bit too small (esp. on Linux), you should use relative sized fonts instead of pixel-size…
That’s a sweet blog-thing, I think I’ll eat more melon by now…

3. On December 18th, 2004 at 11:45 pm, maarch said :maarch's gravatar

Your site is alway has beautilul. Keep on the good work fiz.
And it’s great that you use my favotrite color ( green ) for you blog :D

Oh ! by the way, the link you made to my website in the ABOUT section. You should change it to www.winboost.org instead of my old blogspot. ( I dont update my blog, only winboost now )

So another time, great blog fiz !!!!

4. On December 19th, 2004 at 11:12 am, Remi said :Remi's gravatar

Thank you guys for the comments :) And ext… sorry for the font but I don’t like the way every browser handle relative fonts. If one relative size is OK in IE/Win, it is not in Safari, or FireFox, etc…

Sorry ;)

5. On December 19th, 2004 at 12:18 pm, jeton said :jeton's gravatar

Nicely done Remi.
I really love the design, it looks fresh.
Oh, and congrats on the new domain.

6. On December 19th, 2004 at 2:28 pm, BruB said :BruB's gravatar

Je refuse d’abandonner iFiz.net. Exomel n’est qu’une nouvelle apparence :)

Bravo Rémi.

7. On December 19th, 2004 at 2:48 pm, Joe said :Joe's gravatar

Love the new layout Remi :D

8. On December 19th, 2004 at 3:10 pm, Remi said :Remi's gravatar

Thank you Jeton, Joe and BruB. But BruB, I think I’ll force english comments for exomel, if you don’t mind :-)

Consider your-self as a lucky person, since you got the first (and last) french comment that will not be removed ;-)

9. On December 19th, 2004 at 4:53 pm, Sim said :Sim's gravatar

Beatiful design fiz! I especially love the Error 404 page :)
Congratulations!

10. On December 20th, 2004 at 5:24 am, TechMount said :TechMount's gravatar

Congratulation.

I like your design.

11. On December 20th, 2004 at 10:37 am, BruB said :BruB's gravatar

:( I’m being yelled at by Fizzy!

12. On December 20th, 2004 at 12:46 pm, Remi said :Remi's gravatar

By the way, BruB, I left the name “fizzy” in April 2004, and I got iFiz.net for 2 months, January and February 2004.

And I’m not yelling at you! ;-)

13. On December 20th, 2004 at 4:45 pm, septor said :septor's gravatar

Nice layout, I like this preview thing, maybe I’ll test this WordPress you speak of.

14. On December 25th, 2004 at 5:18 pm, Jabbok said :Jabbok's gravatar

I REALLY like the layout of your site but I’m suspicious of anyone who doesn’t like peanut butter. ;)

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