I have a new blog! As you may have noticed, I haven’t blogged a lot in the last eight months, averaging around a blog per month. Did I mention I am OCD about certain things? My blog layout is one of those things. The various themes available on Blogger were not appealing to me, so I lacked the motivation to blog. After seeing how cool Shawn’s new blog using WordPress turned out, I decided to give it a try. WordPress’ software allows you to write code, using some of their pre-defined functions, to customize the look and feel of your blog. They also provide a gui for those with less coding experience. A great benefit of this whole project has been learning pHp and css (cascading style sheets) in the process. I still have a ways to go, but I hope to continue to expand those skills as this site develops. W3Schools Online Tutorials has been a godsend for css!
After working on this in waves over the last month or two, sometimes into the wee hours, the blog side of things is finally finished, for the most part. Comments and archives are soon to come within the next week. The current theme is inspired by the strawberry, grape, and raspberry gummies in Welch’s Fruit Snacks (the blue pouches). Within the next couple weeks, I would like to have a home page with information about myself. Other future additions include additional themes, selecting your own theme, and a “tank cam”, which will stream live footage of my fish swimming in my 55 gallon fish tank. For the tank cam, by “future”, I mean a few months. I need fish first… more on that tragedy in a future post.
Special thanks to my boyfriend Shawn for hosting my blog on his 13throse domain. What a peach!