Archive for September, 2008

Themes

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.

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Configuration…

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
I haven’t really configured them too well and I’ll probably end up removing the Delicious ones.
I’m also intending to install Mike’s 404 handler extension.
Anyone have any suggestions for other WP plugins or extensions worth making use of?

Getting started

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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