After nearly 10 years of my old logo, I thought it might be nice to rebrand my personal logo; taking some influences from my life since the last time I did a brand design for myself.

So, it’s been a pretty quick pivot recently as you might’ve gleaned from my previous blog post – but I’m consolidating all my domains under a single jtiong.com domain name. And not wanting to throw away the hard work of Chubby Snorlax from my jtiong.games and jtiong.network domain names – I’ve begun slowly shaping the existing site you’re reading right now into what is called “Chunky Snorlax” – a similar theme (still following the Pokemon theme for things – Annie’s a big fan of Pokemon of course) with a twist, the “Chunky” nomenclature is because the site is just full of stuff from my other domain names.

True to form, it’s a darker themed site as usual – although there are some nicer features I’ve implemented including:

• Update to Bootstrap v5.3.8 which is the latest version
  • This also include Bootstrap Icons v1.13.1
• There’s now an image Lightbox overlay that I’ve tweaked for viewing images (for future posts going forward – it’d take me forever to update things retroactively sadly)
• There’s a more considered approach to the mobile version of the site now (tidier menus)
• There’s now a Tag Cloud (although I don’t know many people that browse that way?)
• Captions on images now appear with a frosted effect at the bottom of images too (FANCY!)

I’m hoping to keep this theme around for more than 12 months this time around, but I think going forward it’ll be less a “brand new revamp” and more of an evolution of design going forward as the needs of the site evolve too.

Chunky Snorlax is probably the most “complete” WordPress theme, I’ve built to date. There’s no doubt a lot of bugs and issues, and the theme itself is very simplistic, but it’s mine, and it’s built from scratch, warts and all 😄

Hope you all enjoy it 👍

Welp, seems to be an almost yearly thing – although to be honest there’s no plan to how I do things with my jtiong.* sites — it’s all very whimsical 😅

I’ve started working on a new site theme called “Chubby Snorlax‘ – a sort of sequel to “Minty Charmander” (the theme you see now on this site – as written about here).

This was mostly brought about by wanting to freshen things up when I started updating my jtiong.games website. The site itself is going to be used as a personal game server documentation and humble bragging website for all the stuff I run and mod for family and friends.

Behold!

The site design pulls back more towards engineering documentation style layouts with a little bit of a flair taken from my jtiong.network site. It’s part of an intended update to all my domain names that I’ll write about (I suppose…) in the future.

The design itself is mostly complete – with the final steps being to make sure that any content I put into the theme is represented fittingly with the design (ie. there’s no weird layout issues or formatting issues). After that, I’m not going to immediately update this blog’s theme; but rather I’ll deploy Chubby Snorlax into the jtiong.dev site first, alongside some behind the scenes updates to that site!

Minty Charmander was a fairly easy update – I was able to create a WordPress compatible theme, then roll out a similar style that matched to jtiong.dev – however, this time the workload has increased to three websites (.blog, .dev, .games) at least. So complexity of the project does grow – each site has its own unique functionality, .blog being a WordPress powered site, .dev being a stylized website that interacts with GitHub, and .games being almost entirely handwritten HTML/PHP content. I’m trying to unify their look & feel, as well as bring them all under an umbrella sort of branding “jtiong.network” like a media network or some such. It’s just a fancy hobby name for my rapidly costlier hobby.