Here is hoping you all had a fan-tas-tic festive season and indulged in your favourite indulgences.
For me it has busy few weeks yet if you were to ask me what I actually did I’d be hard pressed to tell . . .
What is glaringly obvious is that I have done no work on overhauling the sexy books. This awkward, ungainly thing that is currently my blog cannot go on. I’ve decided to take the bit between my teeth and build it all from scratch. Am determined to hand code every blasted little bit. Yes, I know that there are bagillions of templates and wysiwyg whatsits out there (quite literally bags of illions of them) to make life that little bit more palatable in terms of a nice shiny sexy books but no, they are not for the likes of I.
It has been years since I have done any real coding so I would like to see if any aspect of it has lodged somewhere into what I charitably call my brain. This will be a test to see if I can develop something semi-respectable. Coding has never been my strength so this could very well be a long and painful process - please bear with me!
Feedback is most welcomed and in fact encouraged (yes, Cristiano and B I am looking at you).
“One Crowded Hour”, Augie March
by Cristiano Betta, on 01.07.08 @ 2:21 pm
Picking a design is a lot of work. Don’t give up on existing templates. Both Melinda and I made some nice designs by simply taking an existing design and breaking it so far to be less and less like the original and more and more unique. Coding a WP template from scratch is a serious pain in the but.
Here is another advise (whoch I would have expected you, the SEO person, to know): link to my blog when you use my name in your blog posts. Not because I want the traffic, but simply because I then get a trackback and KNOW that you wrote my name
by admin, on 01.08.08 @ 1:51 am
Cristiano - fully aware of that tip : ) Thanks. Know all about trackbacks and so on - just right now not wanting to do anything to the blog at all. In any form.