That website... egads
I've spent probably the past 2 weeks working on a custom theme for my mom's author website, and I finally got it done yesterday and..... there are problems with the formatting. I gave up for now, and found a free theme that's geared towards authors with widgets and plugins that let you have posts about featured books persist in the sidebars.
It's sort of live right now, with not a whole lot of content in it over at elizabethmansfield.com. I will be tweaking the appearance a bit, but I have a buttload of content to enter into it. I have probably a 40 or 50-page HTML website that needs to be converted, and covers to upload and such. I am just not in the mood right now.
I feel slightly defeated over not being able to implement my original design - I got really close. Really really close. But I tagged some things incorrectly in the body of the pages, and that screwed up how posts look if they use formatting like bullet lists and the like. It would probably take me another 2 weeks to fix it working at night and on weekends, and I just don't have the bandwidth to devote to that as I am now way behind in my quilting and getting my other projects done. I may get back to it someday - once all the content is uploaded in to the blog, changing the theme is relatively painless.
I probably should have done this in a different CMS system like Joomla, but the Wordpress class on lynda.com seemed to be very comprehensive, and it was, for a basic thing - adding plugins and widgets broke my design, and I don't have the WP or PHP skillz to really be able to tweak the design for it to work properly.
It's rather annoying that the latest web coding has become so specialized and complex; it's making me nostaligic for the old web 1.0 and Blink tags...
It's sort of live right now, with not a whole lot of content in it over at elizabethmansfield.com. I will be tweaking the appearance a bit, but I have a buttload of content to enter into it. I have probably a 40 or 50-page HTML website that needs to be converted, and covers to upload and such. I am just not in the mood right now.
I feel slightly defeated over not being able to implement my original design - I got really close. Really really close. But I tagged some things incorrectly in the body of the pages, and that screwed up how posts look if they use formatting like bullet lists and the like. It would probably take me another 2 weeks to fix it working at night and on weekends, and I just don't have the bandwidth to devote to that as I am now way behind in my quilting and getting my other projects done. I may get back to it someday - once all the content is uploaded in to the blog, changing the theme is relatively painless.
I probably should have done this in a different CMS system like Joomla, but the Wordpress class on lynda.com seemed to be very comprehensive, and it was, for a basic thing - adding plugins and widgets broke my design, and I don't have the WP or PHP skillz to really be able to tweak the design for it to work properly.
It's rather annoying that the latest web coding has become so specialized and complex; it's making me nostaligic for the old web 1.0 and Blink tags...