Orangescale Studio

Here’s an illustration: You learn about web technologies like design, content management systems, social media. At the same time, you also study some of those subjects deeper. It makes you understand and sometime you can make a small prediction about what will happen next if you use certain strategies (in one of those technologies). You help [...]

Let’s make this post short. When I worked on my blog in Bahasa Indonesia, I decided to use a simple theme. I don’t want to use too many images. Then, I created a theme. A simple theme. I realized that I haven’t created any single free theme this year — or may be last year. Now, [...]

When I have someone who wanted to ask our service and it’s related to web design (blog, sites, etc), we don’t just start the work right away. I usually spend my times and steal client’s time to have some discussion about the project. Usually, I ask few things: What kind of website you want to have, [...]

I’m not sure when this problem firstly noted. I just found it today. I don’t have a personal account at MediaTemple’s (gs), but I do maintain an account — with some sites installed under it. MediaTemple reported: Starting Nov 6, 2009, we noticed many customers reporting a new php injection exploit. If you feel that your sites [...]

I don’t have very large/busy personal sites to handle right now. To be more specific, I don’t use publishing platform optimization techniques too much. In the last few months, I need to work/deal with something what we all call “optimization”. At the moment, I maintain busy sites powered by WordPress and vBulletin. My responsibility is to [...]

Finally, we’ve just finished uploading hundreds of photos from Jogja Wall Nation event. This is related to my previous post, about our involvement in this event. We’re responsible for the event publishing strategy and management. It’s not only preparing the website for the event, managing all contents and writing updates — yes, we published tons [...]

I like WordPress and its templating system so far. For many WordPress users, WordPress’ widgets features in theme might be something useful. Especially, for those who do not want to deal with template tags or confusing lines of codes. Personally, when I create WordPress themes for my own sites, I rarely — almost never — [...]

In the last few days, I was a busy updating a site for a big event in Jogjakarta. The event called “Jogja Wall Nation”. It’s a mural competition. This event took place in the city of Jogjakarta. Last month, I had my friend from the event organizer contacted me. He asked me about the idea [...]

Last month, I joined a meeting to discuss a project. No, it’s not related to website/design directly. In the meeting, the word “popularity” came into discussion and there was a statement more or less like this: If you search {put word here} using Google, there are many search results about the keyword. We can see/learn the [...]

Last September, we made an experiment to use Amazon S3 service with CloudFront. The idea was to distribute the contents of my client's site to reduce the server load. We heard many positive comments about Amazon AWS, and we decided to try it.

If it's about how many blogs I manage right now, in total there are more than 25 WordPress installations. But, if the question is related to how many admin logins I have, more than 40 logins I think. Ouch!

Right now, we're working on a gallery album site. Our client wants to have a photo gallery for her site. There are many great gallery scripts like Gallery Menalto, 4Images, and Coopermine. Every software has its own great features. After having discussion with our client, we decided not to use one of those options. We choose WordPress.

Last week, Indonesia held its presidential election. Before the election, there were some debates hold by some TV stations. I recorded the debates and put in a podcast section in my blogs.

Website that has membership feature will have (should!) have this feature. In most cases, the mechanisms are almost the same.

Previously, I talked a little bit about i-teve. Now, allow me to share a little bit more about some technical stuff. I already mentioned that we decided to use WordPress. The first reason was that because everything -- in this case, i-teve -- can be accomodated by WordPress.

Congratulation for the newly launch video-based site: i-teve! No, I'm not talking about new video sharing provider -- in Indonesia. i-teve is an Indonesia-based site crafted by Budi Putra and Elprisdat M. Zen. My involvement is to provide support for technical aspects. One of them is building the site.

Meet Sheeba Majmudar's website -- she is a nutritionist from Singapore.

Today, our friend at Fashionese Daily posted a news about MAC in Mode event. Hey, it's not that Mac, it's about MAC Cosmetics. We worked together with Fashionese Daily to create the microsite.

I am working on a new WordPress Theme right now. It's The Shamrock and the Bird. When I started making this theme, it was based on WordPress 2.6. But, because WordPress 2.7 is already available, I decided to make some changes. Here is a screenshot.

WordPress, the publishing platform we're using -- not only for this site, but also for mine and my girl's -- does it again. An interesting story about how WordPress is being used to build City of Albert Lea website. That's right, it is using WordPress 2.7.

Right now, I tried to create video contents for videoblogging. I have uploaded some videos at my videoblogging blog. I'm still finding the best video sharing providers out there. I know there are many, but I use Vimeo as my primary video storage. I'm curious about the video results after being uploaded.

How to remove WordPress version generator meta-tag in an easy way? We can do it easily by adding/modifying functions.php file inside theme directory.

First, we're helping Hanzky -- hey, congratulation for the new baby! -- upgrading the server and also the forum. All processes were done without major problems. After having a discussion, Fashionese Daily came into decision to upgrade the server. It has more RAM now. After the upgrades, the website (especially the forum) run smoothly even on peak hours. Anyway, according to vBulletin forum statistics, there were 541 online users.

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. :)

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. :)

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.

A-not-easy-to-answer question. Seriuosly. But, if we have to answer that question, there are two blogging platforms come to our mind: WordPress and Movable Type. Not only because those are our favorite platforms, but also those are platforms we're familiar with.

Few days ago, I applied a new design for Orangescale Studio website. So, if you read our Juicy Blog from RSS readers, I would like to invite you to see our new design. So, what's new here?

Yesterday, I just made some changes on My City Blogging, one of Asia Blogging Network's channels. And, this is one of the busiest channel in the network.

Yesterday, I updated Kasanova Interior website, one of our client's.