I still remember it was end of October or beginning of November, 2011 when I was going to graduate and trying to find my first job. I wanted to have a blog hosted and coded by myself as my first one was on blogger. So I went and coded it using CakePHP framework. I find naming it a bit difficult but finally went for a xyz subdomain @ huuthinhhouse.com. xyz was inspired from my English name rexy 😀

As far as the design is concerned, Its top header containing my blog name and title was mostly inspired from Jacob Wright’s blog. Of course, my so-called “Rexy theme” is a completely different design which consists of 1 column – the main content only.

But it didn’t last too long. I started my new blog project somewhere during the summer of 2012. It was mainly because I found it too time-consuming having to build very basic blog features from scratch. Besides, as a self-coded blog, blogging and importing content from my old blog was extremely inconvenient as well. So I went to build another blog using WordPress based on the original design and still hosted at @huuthinhhouse.

I added in a “brand new” footer, animated header and removed all the unnecessary stuff in the left hand side. Apparently, it was much neater and more professional. But again it didn’t last long either. In fact, I bought and did some HTML5 experiments at the new domain rexy.me just a few months later. After some hesitation, I finally migrate my whole blog here.  Design wise, it’s basically same as the 2nd one with some considerable improvements.

I particularly love the new navigation. I think it’s just awesome! 😡 The footer also looks better. The downside would be the left new navigation which seems not perfect… I feel there is still some more room for improvement in this design. The next version would be significantly different, perhaps  showing off a minimalistic design!? 🙂

Ver. 1.0

Ver. 2.0

Ver. 2.5