Long Nguyen

Some Facts About This Website

• The blog is powered by Wordpress, with a highly customized theme.
• The plugins are Akismet, Customizable Post Listings, Simple Recent Comments, Subscribe To Comments, the_excerpt Reloaded, Title Case, WassUp, WP-Cache, WP-FancyZoom.
• The fonts are Arial and Lucida Sans.
• The blue bird used to represent Twitter is the icon for the Twitter client, Twitterrific.
• The icons used for the Contact part are from IconsPedia, except for Email and Phone, which I don’t remember where I got them.
• The background was taken on a morning after I woke up and looked in the mirror before brushing my teeth and I thought my hair looked peculiar. The shot was taken with iSight on my black Macbook.
• This website has an underlying grid of 4 columns, except for the Photography section.
• The scripts used are Tooltip, FancyZoom, Lighbox Gone Wild and a modified version of the Twitter script. The original Twitter script makes the website hang until the Twitter update is received. I don’t remember where I got Tooltip, but it isn’t mine.
• It took a few months to think about what I wanted to put on the website, to organize the content and to come up with the design. It took less than a week to type the code and make the design functional
• I’m not nice. The home page welcomes visitors only because I didn’t know what else to write.