Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

I redesigned the website of Lux International AG. It was at least 10 weeks ago when the new web design of Lux International AG went online. It took me 6 weeks to finish everything and before we considered that it was ready for publishing. The design was simple, easy to navigate, and fast to download.

It was a complete overhaul as we changed the web design and layout, revised the content, revised and added new text, changed most of the pictures and images, rearranged the menus and its submenus, implemented a new navigation system, among others.

I coded the site using ASP as the server didn’t support ASP.NET and PHP when I tested it. I actually created the site using PHP first as it was supposed to be possible to upgrade the hosting using PHP, only to find out later that the web host was no longer supporting PHP. I created a simple CMS using ASP, then decided to use ASP.NET instead when I found out that ASP.NET can be used, and when I tested it, there was a permission problem regarding the database. By the way, the web host has windows server. As there is no control panel to work with, and I have no access to the server, I asked the web host to set the correct permission but it was not possible on their part. They already gave me an explanation but I still wonder. I will not elaborate as well.

Actually, I thought of other possible options and alternatives when I started redesigning the site but at the moment we’ll just have to update the site the way we used to, and not using CMS.

I finally finished upgrading all the Websites using WordPress from WordPress 2.1.3 to WordPress 2.3 “Dexter”. I really had issues with WordPress 2.2 that’s why I didn’t upgrade the sites from WordPress 2.1.3 to WordPress 2.2 neither to WordPress versions 2.2.1, 2.2.2 and 2.2.3. I first tried upgrading Sehdi.com last Tuesday, and I didn’t have any problems. So I decided to upgrade all the other Websites the next day except for Weggis.net which I only did on Friday.

SofieHofmann.com Blog, Sehdi.com, Pandan.ph, Pandan.gov.ph News, Tugbong.pandan.ph were still using WordPress 2.1.3 before the upgrade. Pagtatap.org was the only one that I upgraded from WordPress 2.1.3 to WordPress 2.2.1, not WordPress 2.2. Actually with Weggis.net, I didn’t have to do it myself, as my webhost has one click upgrade feature. I wanted to upgrade Weggis.net last Wednesday too, but my webhost haven’t installed WordPress 2.3 yet. As I haven’t upgraded the site from WordPress 2.2.2, I just upgraded it to WordPress 2.2.3, only to be upgraded again last Friday to WordPress 2.2.3 as my webhost finally installed it.

I never really had major problems with the WordPress Plugins, everything went well. If there were any problems, they were just minor ones, and they were fixed in just a few seconds.

I don’t have more than 7 WordPress Plugins in any of my sites but if you combine all the different sites, then I’m using more or less 11 but not more than 15 WordPress Plugins. What are those WordPress Plugins then? Kindly check this past entry, Upgraded to WordPress 2.1 Ella. So far I’m using the same WordPress Plugins and nothing really changed that much except for using its new versions, of course. Check the sites of these WordPress Plugins for new versions compatible to WordPress 2.3.