Well, I got a lot of work done tonight / this morning. I have a new website up, but it has a long way to go. Haven’t decided what all I want to do with it, just that it is high time I got off my tookas and start doing something. So while there isn’t anything here yet, here’s what I did:
- Installed IIS on my new laptop.
- Backed up my old site.
- Installed WordPress and began to play with it all.
Everything went fairly smoothly; even though I had a lot to learn about changes to my host, operating system (haven’t used Windows 7 much until now except for “the basics”,) and WordPress itself. I’ve never been great in PHP but I managed to alter the default WordPress theme (which I kind of like) to randomly pull from some of my own images. Pretty kludgy the way it works, but I’m using WordPress’s own code and just adding to it.
I also played with one of my photos to make my first header which you should be able to see at the top of this page as I have set it as the featured image for this post. The thumbnail below also links to this new header image:
Well, long past time that I should hit the sack, so I will continue to experiment with this site in the days and months to come. Hopefully somewhere along the way it will actually become something worth visiting.
If anyone has any suggestions on the kind of stuff they think I should be putting on this website, or the kind of things they want to see on the website. Please leave me some comments.
Good start, Jeff. There’s a lot of power in WordPress that you’ll come to appreciate the more you use it.
I kind of have mixed feelings about wordpress. Some things it does REAL well. But other things (like customizing what appears in a specific page’s sidebar, etc.) takes a pretty steep learning curve to alter compared to something like Google Sites. As a whole it is definitely worth playing with more and “learning by doing”. Question for you? Do you get a copy of replys to your comment via email? Let me know if you do.