I must be getting bolder and bolder with age (or just plain old foolhardy!) - first I switched this blog from the blogger to the WordPress platform and now I have completely re-vamped my Kuching Kayak website all in the first few weeks of 2008! This is the ‘old website’ which I put up in 2006 with the kind help of Kawaras - much appreciation and thanks Khairul!

I like my old Kuching Kayak Website but once I get too comfortable with something, I tend to get worried!

And now this is the ‘new website’ which I’ve set up using a WordPress magazine style template called WP Magazine Theme 1.0 that I purchased from solostream.com. I’ve been working on it most evenings since last week and finally over this weekend, I managed to get almost all the things that I would like to have up on the site mostly done. I hope you like it and your comments would be appreciated so that I can fine-tune it, if I can(!) - but it’s really a cool and easy to use template. Thanks Michael Pollock! I trust that the change is for the better as I don’t think Michael Pollock will give me a refund! Hmm.

There were several reasons why I decided to re-vamp the Kuching Kayak website even though it has served me well.

• I wanted to make the website more dynamic instead of the current static pages.
• I hope that with this revised website, I’ll get more visitors and hence more people getting to know about our exciting trips through the rain forest jungles of Borneo. I’ve also re-named it so that the title will be more search engine friendly.
• I wanted to be able to easily post thumbnail photos of our guests whom we have taken photos of so that they can easily download them from this site.
• I wanted to blog about the trips taken by our guests here instead of at my blog.
• I am also contemplating blogging here instead of at my current blog FH2o: Kuching Kayaking to drive more traffic here as I get over 10 times more traffic from my blog rather than here. I hope things will change from now onwards with the revamped website. We’ll see how it goes.

Anyway I’m glad I ‘worked on’ my blog and Kuching Kayak website as we’ll never get anything done in life if we procrastinate or worry about our world falling apart if we try something new or terrifying. Here’s wishing you all courage and luck in 2008 and may it be a productive and prosperous one for you! Be Well.