My Website To-Do List
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Dear Author provides an excellent summary of what readers want from an author's website. Sadly my own site fails to delivery on almost every point. Time for another update....
Almost certainly not the best way to skin a cat
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Almost certainly not the best way to skin a cat
7 comments:
I read that post as well, running down the list going ah huh ahuh done that that and that, then realised when I updated last I didn't add a contact me link, DOH! So I wuickly went and updated :)
I wonder if I can convince you over to wordpress? I'll even help you design it if you like :)
What does wordpress have to lure us out of this blogger cave?
Wordpress acts as a full website and blog system (assuming you're using your own webhosting not a free hosting site)
Celia Kyle actually put me on to it originally, but lots of other people use it.
I still use my blogger blog to blog (ok that just sounds weird), and use the wordpressblog as my website frontpage so I can make easy updates etc. (though I notice with the latest version of wordpress you can change this default now to reflect a static page in a much less convoluted manner than before)
check my main website www.annedouglas.com.
There are thousands of free templates, which you can adjust to suit your needs - my website looks nothing like the original template :), and of course you can get someone to build one for you.
Adding pages and posts is much the same as using blogger
www.wordpress.org I think is the main site. It's an open source product so people create all sorts of widgets, templates etc.
www.wordpress.com is the wordpress version of blogger - you can't do as much with it, I believe it's sort of a cut down version of the main wordpress.
Was having a little looksee. There is Joomla, and typepad too, butI think type pad is a blog only? I'm not sure. Joomla sure looked interesting though
I spent some time staring blankly at word press this morning and unsuccessfully trying to instal it. I have always wanted a handy thing like this and have looked at many. But the bottom line is that I just don't get it.
I like the look of a lot of the wordpress websites. Personally, I never could figure out how to use the software. I'm a little slow that way. *g*
I'm happy to give you ladies a hand with getting things set up, and helping you customise. Once it's up and running it's easy running.
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