Greetings
It would seem that the kind people at BlueHost are unfamiliar with the PreRaphaelite brotherhood. I just received my confirmation call from them, checking to make sure I really am who I said I am, etc., and everything was going smoothly until the nice man on the other end of the line tried to pronounce my URL. There was a long pause, then, slowly, “preeee-rap-hell-light-eee-punk?”
Rather cute, in a vaguely pathetic sort of way. I mean, the PreRaphaelites aren’t all that obscure.
At any rate, this is my lovely new site. Please bear with me as I learn the ins and outs of WordPress and the art of manipulating templates, figuring out what I’m doing and how to find and manipulate the particular widgets to let me do what I want to do with this site. Progress may be somewhat erratic for a while; consider yourself warned.
Update: Just a reminder/warning that basically none of the links, except the Flickr badge, really work at this point. It’s always good to leave some tasks for later. Yeah, that’s it. I’m also not sure about the template: it’s not bad, but the margins are awfully wide and, despite having spent the last hour trying to figure out where the settings are so I can mod them, I can’t seem to expand the text space width. Oh well. It’ll get there eventually.
Fabulous site. I bet you feel really accomplished! How come the Laughing Squid lost your commerce? BlueHost looks all serious and stuff.
I think the most difficult part of CSS is changing text widths. Good luck with that.
How did you get the nifty “RSS feed for these comments”? I want that!
August 28th, 2005 | #
Only semi-accomplished. I managed to batter out some of the obvious dings and bumps, but there’s so much tweaking left to do and settings I didn’t know to turn off — such as the need to moderate comments. (Yipe.) I’m thinking about downloading as much as I can of the WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page) to my PDA and going through it bit by bit. Yes, actually reading the instructions. It’s scary indeed.
I have no idea how I got the RSS comments feed; perhaps it’s part of WP 1.5.2? Or perhaps not. I’m just glad it’s there. I’ll try to figure out why, though, so it can be replicated.
Basically, I went with BlueHost rather than Laughing Squid primarily because the latter actually dares to take weekends off (the scoundrels!), and I didn’t want to wait. I knew I’d get next to nothing done during the week, and next weekend is DragonCon. (Also, LS lets you handle your own domain setup, which I wasn’t up to facing at this point.) Thus, the boring host with the grownup name. ::shrug::
August 28th, 2005 | #
Closed on the weekends! How dare they? When do they think people build their personal sites? Humph.
Wow. Reading the instructions. Good luck with that. You could read them while waiting for the Joss next weekend (if he shows up).
August 28th, 2005 | #
It’s appalling, these people actually wanting lives of their own. We demand selfless, constant service!
I wish DC would give the final word on Joss/no Joss already. Most frustrating.
August 28th, 2005 | #