Hughes News

Back to basics

gyroman — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:51:00 +0000

Now I want to get en route for theme development. I’m a great fan of Chris Coyier (www.css-tricks.com) so I’ve download his ‘Blank’ theme and I’m also discovered another at www.simonwebdesign.com based on the 960 grid, which also interests me. What ,theme you see when you happen upon this site will depend on my latest whim and the state of development of my ideas. I’ve been following Chris’ 3-part video tutorial taking you through Photoshop-based design through HTML/CSS implementation to theme development, so we’l see what happens.

OK – now to try some stuff

gyroman — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:58:55 +0000

I’ve just switched to a free theme downloaded direct from the WP internals. It’s called Greyzed 1.0.3. I’ve absolutely no allegiance to it, just found it through scrolling through the recently-updated themes (on the basis that group would contain stuff that was at least better than when it started out). It’s OK – as a blog anyway. But what I actually want to do is create a sorta static site – like the more traditional hierarchical websites – so that I can see the virtues of WP as a CMS.

I’ve joined the Wordpress world

gyroman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:22:17 +0000

Well, it wasn’t difficult… I use 1&1 hosting and, having Googled the best way to install, I happened on Antbag’s blog - http://antbag.com/how-to-install-wordpress-with-1-and-1-hosting/ - on how to do exactly that. No problems, no hassle, just as smooth as oil. 10 minutes to download WP, download Filezilla, set up the database in 1&1, edit the wp-config file, upload all the WP files, run the installation programme and, hey, I’m rolling. Must get rid of the Kubrick theme of course but not a bad job…