www.mental-distortions.com - Ron Chiu's digital portfolio site

Some who have visited the site may notice a few minor updates and changes. For one thing, I’ve moved most of the right side modules to the left now… Still debating what to add, if anything, to the right side to take their place.

Also, updated the artwork section of my site. Sequential and Digital Artwork sections are now up. Next on my to-do list will be to update the Digital Colouring gallery, which should include the pages I’ve done for the comic book “Chisuji” as well as various pages from manga I read.

More to come, as always!

Well, when I was working on the redesign of this site, I knew I definitely wanted to implement some sort of blogging/news system in place to help manage my random ramblings. Putting things into HTML was fine and dandy, if I didn’t really post much, but I wanted to make this more of a regular habit of mine, to post my thoughts online.

At first, i started off playing around with CuteNews and it’s many variants. CuteNews is a pretty neat little news/blogging system, and it’s very easy to implement on a site. Just install it on your web host, and add a few lines of PHP and BAM! Instant news. However, where it fails is when you need your code to validate.

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