Apr
19
Until now, Space for a Name’s homepage was just a collection of all my posts. While you could read all my posts without leaving that one page, it wasn’t very attractive, and didn’t have any focus, except that granted by the ordering of elements on the page. What I really wanted was to put focus on the newest article while still allowing readers to see other recent posts and get an idea of what each post covers. Luckily, this only required a few small changes to my index.php. (more…)
Apr
13
Ahh, that’s much easier. From the minute I started writing my first post for Space For a Name, I knew I was going to be installing a blogging software at some point. I also knew that the sooner I did so, the better. I didn’t want to develop an entire website and then have to shoehorn some blogging framework into an existing design; better to work from the ground up. However, I knew absolutely nothing about any of the options available to me, so I was a bit wary.
It didn’t take long to settle on WordPress. I’ll admit, however, that not much research went into that decision. At a glance, Wordpress seemed to offer the level of customization and control over markup that I desired, and my web host provided it as a one-step installation. So, ease won out over rigorous investigation. (more…)
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