Firstly, I have to say that one of the reasons it’s taking me so long to design and get AW’s Wordpress website up and running is because I keep getting distracted! Distracted by visiting other links – some relevant to the work I’m doing, and others possibly not, but all quite interesting on the whole… and divertive. For example, I knew I had to open accounts with Youtube, Flickr, AdSense, Twitter (?) and let Technorati know about the ‘blog’. But then I discovered such websites as Scribd (check it out). It was new to me, persuaded me to open an account and led me naturally into a quite different direction. But it was fun, and has countless possibilities for me in both work and play areas.

Another thing which slowed me down was having to design the banner for AW’s website: the right photo, the right dimensions and resolution. I was quite proud of myself when I uploaded it… only to find that it contrasted badly with the white title header. I’m going to live with it for a while though, until I get inspired to come up with a solution – and have a couple of spare hours. The banner and title are bearable, and perhaps it may be only me who is being too pendantic about it.

I’ve more or less sorted out the layout of the site. What helped me today was the fact that I actually drew on paper my proposed design for it, taking into account that soon I will be adding videos and photos (a slideshow or gallery) to it. I’m happy with it at the moment, but who knows what will happen when I download and add more Plugins and Widgets?!

I’m also getting more to grips with the CSS stylesheet and the PHP footer, header, sidebars, etc. files. I am gradually re-theming the original theme I chose!

Time to do a backup now….

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