Orangescale Studio

Selama hampir setahun menggunakan theme yang sama untuk cinila.com, Wordpress (blogtool yang saya gunakan) tidak berhenti berkembang. Dari perbaikan security hole, penambahan tagging system, sampai yang terbaru (Wordpress 2.5) dan yang paling dirasakan oleh pengguna Wordpress adalah perombakan design dashboard.

Jadi dengan banyaknya perkembangan dan pembaruan di Wordpress itu, cinila.com benar-benar membutuhkan theme baru yang lebih sesuai.

Theme kali ini sebenarnya sama dengan theme sebelumnya, Snail Theme, tiga kolom layout dengan dua sidebar di kanan. Yang berubah adalah pengurangan plugin untuk layout, yang kini bisa dengan mudah kita capai dengan tag baru Wordpress. Contohnya tag clouds (yang dulu saya menggunakan category clouds plugin), dan juga aside yang dengan mudah bisa dicapai dengan query_posts.

After being with Movable Type for the last three -- or longer, I think -- I decided to move to other platform. Now, my blog (not this blog!) is powered by WordPress. That's our first news. :)

Another news, Lala also made a new design for her blog. This time, her blog is using Stitches Theme. As always, a cute design.

If you follow us reading this blog, we are still helping Fashionese Daily. We are standing behind a great and busy website: Fashionese Daily. Last week, we silently upgrade its forum to the latest vBulletin. We tried to keep the process as fast as we can. And, we did it. It took for about 20 minutes to upgrade and we made sure that everything should work properly. Looks good now.

Right now, we're working on a new site. And, it's a photo-related site. I'll tell you about this later. Some works are waiting... See ya!

Last month, there is a new mass transportation model launched in Yogyakarta. It's Trans Jogja. Right now, we will not go further writing about how this i-think-good-solution works. We would like to share about how we built the website. :)

It was started because I found it hard to get the information like bus routes, fare, and other technical aspects. When this bus operated for the first time -- during the trial period -- people will try to find out about it, right? But, there was only limited information. I know, we can read newspapers and found information from the internet. I was unlucky.

So, together with our friend Yan Arief, we got an idea to build the website. The concept was simple: provide as much information as possible about Trans Jogja. Not only for us, but -- hopefully -- the information would be useful for those who use internet as the information resources. And we did it. On the early days, we struggled with some platforms to build it. At first, I was thinking about WordPress. It was good, but since we want to have more features, we finally went to Drupal.

We wanted to have the site ready as soon as we could. Providing basic information like routes, general information about the Trans Jogja mechanisms, etc. And, the most important thing was providing the updated information.

These are some initial actions we did:

• Provide information about Trans Jogja, and we kept them well-organized.
• Yan Arief created a group at Flickr.
• I configured Drupal. Adding modules and set them, tweaking theme
• Lala joined the ship and provided more information too

So far, we see more visitors came to the website. We also got positive feedbacks from website readers. And last but not least, big thanks to all people who contribute to the website and enrich the information day by day.... Anyway, Trans Jogja's website can be accessed at http://transjogja.net/

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Our Flickr account is about to reach its limit. Right, we're still using the free version. So far, we love it! I mean, we love the service, but we have the limit. ;) Of course, upgrading will be an option... Continue reading » — Thomas Arie Setiawan / February 24, 2008

Jumping into internet brought many changes in our life, including "payment experience". When we joined the crowd, running a small business and service, we -- like or not -- must deal with various payment methods. Our country -- Indonesia... Continue reading » — Thomas Arie Setiawan / February 14, 2008

Akhir pekan lalu, Orangescale membantu migrasi forum Fashionese Daily dari aplikasi MyBulletinBoard (MyBB) ke aplikasi forum vBulletin. Proses ini sebagai tindak lanjut bahwa forum yang sebelumnya digunakan dirasa kurang memadai dengan makin berkembangnya komunitas Fashionese Daily. Oh ya, sebelumnya kami... Continue reading » — Thomas Arie Setiawan / February 11, 2008

Woops! What does it mean? "Selamat datang" is not an English word, right? You're righ, it's Bahasa Indonesia. Most contents found in this website are in English, and we are from Indonesia. I speak Bahasa Indonesia much better than English,... Continue reading » — Thomas Arie Setiawan / February 8, 2008