My Wordpress skills are steadily progressing, I’m developing another blog for work. It isn’t quite ready enough to show here yet :). We are hiring a designer to help out making a front page (a special one, not just a list of recent posts). I think it is the guy who designed The Roar - a site that impressed me when I found out it was 100% made through Wordpress. I like seeing what it can do. Continue reading ‘Developing another (work) blog’
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I mentioned Firebug in an earlier post, and have decided to go a bit more in depth as to what you can actually do with it.
A colleague at work who is a designer (with some CSS experience I think - she was certainly very helpful!) put me onto this tool. It lets you monitor the source code of any website, including CSS. This means that you do not have to make little updates to your code, FTP it, and reload the page to see changes. You just edit the code, and the site changes - live. No refreshing/saving/uploading necessary.
I have been using it pretty much every day for the last two weeks. Here are the short fast details on what I do with it. I’m sure it does other stuff too… Continue reading ‘Firebug: Revolutionary?’
read part 1 first.
Everything’s ready? Ok, now what to do.
- Install Wordpress - This is unbelievably easy. Create a folder in the root of your site called blog (ie yourdomain.com/blog). Some will argue against using the word blog, or against putting wordpress into a subfolder. For my purposes & needs, it wasn’t a big deal. Once the files are uploaded, go to yourdomain.com/blog, follow the instructions, and you’ve got a swanky new blog. If you need help, its here. Continue reading ‘Howto: Add a blog to your existing website (2)’
I have finished designing/coding my work blog, and have imported some old static pages into it. I thought I would give a run-down on how to do it.
Requirements
- A CSS’d site: To follow this guide, you’ll need to have an existing site built in CSS (to some extent). For example, if you look at the CSS here, you’ll see that it includes the layout of the entire site. It will be far more difficult if the site you are working off is old (ie before CSS was widely used), having CSS in place will let you just drop wordpress into your existing “template”. Continue reading ‘Howto: Add a blog to your existing website (1)’
Until a few weeks ago, I had no CSS experience. As of today, I have almost finished making a blog for my company’s website. I’m not linking to them yet; I want to keep some distance between my blog on my work (although the two are quite closely linked). Actually, I changed my mind. I work for Bienalto Consulting. The blog isn’t “live” yet, but if you’re desperate, you can probably find it with no effort… Continue reading ‘CSS, Blogging in General’
