For My Own Amusement

These are my links for September 25th through September 30th:

• Veer: Elements for Creativity –
• CSSelite.com – CSS Gallery » Showcasing the best in CSS web design and development. –
• For Webdesigners – 676 helpful links for webdesigners –
• Design an Old-Style Safari Map – psdfan.com - –
• stock.xchng – the leading free stock photography site –

I’ve been doing some looking … but not too much more … of themes at this stage. Time time time…

There’s a few good sites I’ve found with some good themes. At this stage I don’t know what path I’ll take: write/design one from scratch; find one that’s close and update it; or just use a pre-existing theme entirely. We shall see.

I might install one tonight just for fun. This one Notepad Chaos is quite beautiful.

Resources:

• 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes you (Probably) haven’t seen
• http://www.wpthemespot.com/

Time’s always a problem … but I’ve been finding a few spare moments to attempt to configure WordPress to the way I’d like. I’ve been playing with a few plugins:

• AddThis.com
• All in one SEO Pack
• del.icio.us for WordPress
• Google Analytics for WordPress
• Lightbox 2
• NextGEN Gallery
• Postalicious
• WordPress.com Stats
• WordPress Automatic Upgrade
• WP-SpamFree

These are my links for September 17th from 10:24 to 12:34:

• Bluff: Beautiful graphs in JavaScript –
• Gruff Graphs for Ruby | Ruby on Rails for Newbies –
• Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 1 | The Tech Labs –
• Open Source Flex Component: TreeMap 2.0 (Beta) – Josh Talks Flash –
• Open Source Flex Component: HeatMap – Josh Talks Flash –
• Evangelism Team Player –

Well, here we are getting started with an all new blog and website. With the recommendation from my friend Mike I’ve opted to go for Wordpress. Lets see how she goes.

I’ve previously been using iWeb on my MobileMe (formally .mac) account … however, iWeb lacks blog features like categorisation, tagging and custom site maps (ie. my site ended up with yucky long paths like http://formyownamusement.com/ForMyOwnAmusement/Blog/Blog.html

Well, lets see how we go getting this themed and customised the way I  want

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