Apr 14 2008
Experiments in WordPress-Land
Per Rachel’s initial instructions, I found someone willing to host my blog. As luck would have it, WordPress happened to be pre-installed on the site, which was just incredibly handy. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to play with it much… until now.
Some quick thoughts thus far:
1. Importing from Blogger was easy once the host upgraded to WP 2.5. It doesn’t get much more point-and-click than what I saw.
2. I have just learned about sub-categories. You have no idea how much this thrills me - it means I don’t have to go through my entire blog and start deleting categories or moving them around. I can just point my more esoteric categories under broader categories. This thrills me to no end.
3. Themes - I’m going to be having fun with them. Oh yes.
If you wish to view my madness as it progresses, you most certainly may at alpha.colborne23016.com. I’m still posting primarily from Blogger for now - when I’m ready to make the transition, there will be plenty of warning. Eventually, all that’s going to happen is that I’m going to make a quick DNS change and that, as they say, should be that, except for the few souls out there that get here using the old Blogspot address.
Suggestions? Let’s have some!
Good work! I’m glad you’re going to use a theme because you need some color in here. This place is awfully white.
RACIST.
And I don’t know how much CSS or HTML you know, but you can change almost anything about any theme you choose. Maybe you just like its layout but not the colors? You can change them! Also the images or whatever they use to design the theme, you can change. If you’re curious, the theme I’m using is ileather (you can search for it on the theme viewer page). As you can see, my blog looks nothing like that! I changed a bunch of shit in the style sheet.
Woot!
I know enough to be dangerous. I’m not planning on going too crazy with editing any of the themes; when my more web-enabled coworker started going off on floating divs, my entire brain glossed over like a bowling ball in one of those polishing things. Very disconcerting. That said, I definitely know my RGB colors, I can count to F, and I’m already working on getting a slightly less San Franciscan banner going on the alpha.