I’ve not had much time to write lately. Apart from anything else, I’ve been focussing on improving my CSS and PHP skills, so that I can start hammering this blog into shape. With a WAMP stack now running on my netbook, and a repeatable process for copying my live blog contents across from the host, I can play around to my heart’s content with PHP scripts and CSS files, without worrying about wrecking the live site.
If you’ve visited the WildVista blog at all over the last couple of months, you’ll notice the major change in the site’s design that I put live yesterday. From the beginning, I envisioned a site that was less like a typical reverse-chronological blog (I’m not writing a real-time diary), and more a magazine-style site with categorised articles and regular features. And so, I’ve now applied (and modified) the Mimbo theme to the site.
So, the WildVista blog is finally up and running. WordPress is ridiculously easy to install, and thus far, I haven’t come across any insurmountable problems. Actually, I haven’t encountered even the merest hint of a snag. Everything’s made sense, and everything’s worked. It’s early days of course (as the vanilla layout has no doubt already tipped you off), but so far, everything in the WordPress garden’s rosy.