December 31, 2006
So.. here it is. My site. Mine. Cool, huh?
It’s not really cozy yet, and for that I apologize.. it kinda reminds me of my first apartment the day after I moved in. The walls were still bare, it still had the smell of fresh paint, and the carpet was dingy from someone else. But it was still mine, and it was like a blank canvas.
A HUUUUUGE thank you to Geoff for helping me get WordPress set up.. I hope to soon have my familiar header bar up and a pretty new theme to greet you. I’m still learning all the tricks, so if you happen to read this and know some of the answers… well, email me already.
- I plan to have a sidebar completely dedicated to random thoughts as I have them that aren’t worthy of an entire post.. so as to save your Google Reader and Bloglines subscriptions the effort of having to hear me expound on things you don’t truly care about. Like this bullet.
- I hope to have a Flickr stream set up so you can see how much we’re enjoying the new camera. And so it looks like I have a life outside of tv and theatre.
- Oh, and I plan to have another sidebar dedicated to gossip generated by where my life DOES lie: tv and theatre.
It’s coming, guys. Slowly but surely. So.. you know.. hang in there. With me.
2:07 pm
I know my way around wordpress themes pretty well, so if you need anything - feel free to ask!
First comment EVER! I rock…so does the new site!
So you want a 3 column site again? Or something a bit more, hm.. layered? Like http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/ (which I werves, layout-wise). And two side-blogs for gossip and quotes? I’ve not done those before but I bet there’s a WP plug-in for it. As for a plug-in for Flickr, that’s super easy with WP. I think there’s even a Flickr ‘widget’ included with WP. Most are vertical, but I’ve modified the one I use to be horizontal.
Some good starting points for 3-column layouts:
http://5thirtyone.com/archives/703
http://elifoner.com/theme/2813
http://anaconda.taragana.net/
http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2005/05/wordpress-three-columns-kubrick-theme/
http://alexking.org/
http://www.urbangiraffe.com/themes/giraffe2/
http://themes.wordpress.net/?cats%5B%5D=3
Side-blog (asides):
http://katesgasis.com/2006/05/02/sideblog-plugin-v30/
http://www.mikexstudios.com/simple-asides/
http://photomatt.net/2004/05/19/asides/ (Matthew Mullenweg is head-dude for WP)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Asides
General good places for plug-ins:
http://www.wpplugins.org/
http://www.johntp.com/category/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/
http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/category/wordpress-plugins/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins
Also, there’s 3rd party widgets to add sections to your sidebars:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/WordPress_Widgets
Yeah, lots of reading, but I’m willing to help, just lemme know. Between Zoot and I you should be more than set.
I know that you know at least the basics of HTML, CSS, etc.. but beyond that, I dunno just how much ya know. I dun wanna stomp on any toes. It was so hard to just install WP here and leave it alone, I kept wanting to tweak this, change that and so forth. I only changed the two color tones for the header and link colors. On, and installed the Tiger Admin plug-in because WP’s default smells bad.
So sad, here I am at 11:55pm, New Year’s Eve..
Oh well.
If you have Pro access to BlogSpirit you can get a full copy of your site:
“Full blog’s export (Pro offer): with this exclusive service offered only to you and only by blogSpirit, you will be able to download your entire blog (posts, comments, pictures, audio files, videos…) and work on it offline or even make a backup copy on a CD-Rom.”
With that, you should be able to import easily into WP.
Nice… you will really enjoy WP. A nice Flickr plugin is located here:
http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/
Let me know if I can help any.
It looks nice, very Brady, but nice.