This is actually not my first time experimenting and implementing a WordPress blog. I think WordPress is a terrific blogging/CMS system that I personally recommended to my employer during the summer. It’s so easy to setup, and has such a great online community of developers that it’s hard to pass up. The robust list of available plug-ins is growing daily and it’s almost certain there will be plug-ins available to fit your needs. On top of that, it’s free! It didn’t take longer for them to decide that they wanted a WordPress blog for their company.
For my personal programming portfolio blog I was able to experiment more deeply with a basic theme called “thematic”. They’re plenty of excellent themes available, but this one gives you a very basic look with plenty of options. I changed almost every aspect of the thematic theme to get the look I wanted. There is literally nothing on the theme that can’t be changed. By doing this, it strengthened my skills and confidence in CSS. I was getting used to good ol’ Dreamweaver guiding me through my website designs. It’s easy to forget how all the back-end code works when Dreamweaver is there. For this assignment it challenged my knowledge to read and change CSS without a WYSIWYG editor and I think the results where positive.
Using WordPress for basic websites (and of course blogs) in the future has been something I’ve considered since my introduction to it. It makes a great way to design a simple website and present the client with an easy to understand content management system. I actually have a potential client that wishes to create a blog and WordPress was my first suggestion to them.
WordPress Endeavour
This is actually not my first time experimenting and implementing a WordPress blog. I think WordPress is a terrific blogging/CMS system that I personally recommended to my employer during the summer. It’s so easy to setup, and has such a great online community of developers that it’s hard to pass up. The robust list of available plug-ins is growing daily and it’s almost certain there will be plug-ins available to fit your needs. On top of that, it’s free! It didn’t take longer for them to decide that they wanted a WordPress blog for their company.
For my personal programming portfolio blog I was able to experiment more deeply with a basic theme called “thematic”. They’re plenty of excellent themes available, but this one gives you a very basic look with plenty of options. I changed almost every aspect of the thematic theme to get the look I wanted. There is literally nothing on the theme that can’t be changed. By doing this, it strengthened my skills and confidence in CSS. I was getting used to good ol’ Dreamweaver guiding me through my website designs. It’s easy to forget how all the back-end code works when Dreamweaver is there. For this assignment it challenged my knowledge to read and change CSS without a WYSIWYG editor and I think the results where positive.
Using WordPress for basic websites (and of course blogs) in the future has been something I’ve considered since my introduction to it. It makes a great way to design a simple website and present the client with an easy to understand content management system. I actually have a potential client that wishes to create a blog and WordPress was my first suggestion to them.