Dean (Zhuiyang) Chen

The good folks at http://forum.modrewrite.com/ was able to provide me with a solution for my mod_rewrite problem. I've also changed my header, but it's not exactly what I wanted. Was looking for a bring and colorful header to contrast the relatively dark theme as that's not really what I'm going for. I also changed the colors of the links and title.

Swapped the two shades of foreground and backgroud color since the white text will better contrast the darker shade of background. That turned out to be more complicated since I had to re-generate the drop shadow on the header and footer. Also changed the mouse overs to change in text color only, the previous background color change with text color change was too flashy. I also changed the font of the posts from san-serif to serif, something that looks a bit prettier(Georgia to be specific)

All the posts now have their own links, a critical requirement for good indexing by search engines. Been trying to get mod_rewrite to reformat the messy php $_GET requests in to nice URLs but the documentation for it is confusing as hell. I've managed to get the nice URLs to wrok when typed in directly. Ex. typeing in the address bay http://ocirs.com/p/25(Updated to http://ocirs.com/blog/25) will bring you to this page. That alone was a pain and browsing through the plentiful of posts at http://forum.modrewrite.com, which contains a lot of good resources for this subject. Hopefully this little problem will be solved tomorrow when I get some sleep.