Devilishly Red

About Devilishly Red

A little bit of history

I started meddling with HTML back in 1998 when I was still studying in the polytechnic. I remember it was my sister who introduced me to the basics of HTML when she had to create a website for her class assignment. But me being me, I lost interest in web designing after the novelty wore off.
 
It was in 2004 when I began to dabble in web designing again as I wanted to set up a blog for my own personal reference. I started with Completely Clueless back in June 2004 and renamed the site to Split Personality in December 2005. After hosting my site with Geocities for over three years, I finally decided to get my own domain and kiss goodbye to annoying pop-up ads.
 

The story of devilishlyred.com

I bought the domain name devilishlyred.net back in April 2006 but the site was launched only in July 2007 due to a serious bout of procrastination on my part. I changed my domain name to devilishlyred.com in March 2008 after switching to a new webhosting company – Oryon Networks. My previous webhost has the habit of holding its customers’ domain name hostage so I decided they no longer deserve my hard-earned money.
 
I thought long and hard for a domain name as I wanted it to be representative of myself and distinctive at the same time. During one of my many brainstorming sessions, the words Devilishly Red popped up in my head and I decided that this would be it. Devilishly Red is a play on the words, Red Devils, which the football fans might recognise as the nickname for Manchester United FC. I’m a huge football fan and Manchester United happens to be my favourite football club. I also happen to think that devilishlyred has a nice ring to it so I settled for it. End of story.
 

Credits & resources

Devilishly Red is powered by WordPress and all resources and plugins used on this site can be found at these wonderful sites:
 

• DaFont – fonts used: Love Ya Like A Sister and Ah The Monster Is Comming
• ICONS etc. – social media graphics icon set
• Better WordPress Recent Comments – recent comments plugin for WordPress
• Digg Digg – social media buttons for WordPress blogs
• Xhanch – My Twitter – Twitter plugin
• iLast.Fm – Last.Fm plugin for WordPress
• WP-Cufon – a font replacement plugin for WordPress
• Askimet – spam prevention plugin
• StatCounter

 

Past themes

 

Version 1 – Island Life

(July 2007 to February 2010)

 

 
This is the very first version of devilishlyred.com and I used a photo taken during my holiday in Krabi for this layout. I took this photo at Tup Island, Krabi and the island is absolutely beautiful!
 

Version 2 – Notice Board

(August 2010 to October 2011)

 

 
My second theme after three long years! The photos used were taken during my trips to Melbourne in 2007 and Taipei in 2008. The rest of the layout was done (rather painstakingly) using my trusty Photoshop 7. Not the most advanced version but indispensable nevertheless.
 

Version 3 – A Lovely Stray

(October 2011 to current)

 

 
This is my third theme for devilishlyred.com in four years. Considering my pathetic skills in designing and coding, I’d think three layouts in four years is fairly decent. I came across the stray puppy featured in this layout when I was exploring Promthep Cape in Phuket (August 2010). It looked so sad and forlorn that I couldn’t help but run after it to snap some photos.
 

Browser compatibility

This site is best viewed with Firefox 6.0, Chrome 14.0 and IE 9.0. If you spot any errors on this site, do drop me an email.