Tết Nguyên Đán Canh Dần 2010

Tết is the biggest and the most sacred festival. It is the most attractive to a majority of the Vietnamese.
Tết falls on a time when the old year is over and the New Year comes by lunar calendar. This is also the time when the cycle of the universe finishes: winter ends and spring, the season of birth of all living things, comes.
Tết Nguyên Đán , more commonly known by its shortened name Tết, is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Lunar calendar, a lunisolar calendar. The name Tết Nguyên Đán is Sino-Vietnamese for Feast of the First Morning, derived from the Hán nôm characters 節元旦.

Officially, the national holiday of Tet lasts for three days. However, in practice it is closer to a week or ten days, as many celebrations occur before this date in the south of Viet Nam and after this date in the north of Viet Nam.

Yesterday, my hosting has been suspended for 8h. This problem was solved after I removed some theme's statistics sourcecode, the php code is not optimized and cache, so when the traffic beyond the normal then the hosting provide suspend my account automatic. )
Today, it's work ok.

I've rolled out a new design for Narga since yesterday evening. You may have noticed that I haven’t updated the blog for last months now. This is first post of this year to let you know that I’m back.

What happened?

I’m not going to lie to you, the main reason I stopped creating tutorials, themes and plugins is because I wasn’t very motivated and didn’t have much time either. The last redesign was one years ago, used table layouts, a lot of image files, and as a result was really sluggish. It’s definitely not good when your site takes almost ten seconds to load and you’re marketing speedy web hosting.

Narga v6.5 Redesigned since 2010

I started new design on this in mid October, 2009, the layout changed numerous times in the first couple of weeks before I (mostly) settled on what you see now. Since then though I’ve rewritten the ‘theme’ behind this half a dozen times, still not sure I’m entirely happy with it, but its better than before.

Here it is, the brand new Smashing Book. Announced several months ago in a couple of posts, it has finally arrived. I bought this book on Aug 14, 2009 (with 20% off when pre-order) then got it at Dec 16, 2009 after 2 delay times.

The Smashing Book

The Smashing Book is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. The book shares technical tips and best practices on coding, usability and optimization and explores how to create successful user interfaces and apply marketing principles to increase conversion rates. It also shows how to get the most out of typography, color and branding so that you end up with intuitive and effective Web designs. And lastly, you will also get a peek behind the curtains of Smashing Magazine.

Dear friends,

I haven't updated any post since Nov 12, because I got a very busy week. This time I must complete 2 project before Nov 22, so I'm comming back soon!

Start from August 2009, every month we take a look at new tutorials, tips, articles and techniques presented in Web-Development-related blogs and magazines and collect them for you. Below an overview of the best tools and articles, which have become popular or were published in October 2009.