Does the following mean anything to you?
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But I spent last night hacking a bunch of PHP code to pieces to try and get the specific minimalist design requested by an artist for her site. Obviously still a work in progress, it started with a relatively basic WordPress theme that I then butchered down even further to get what you currently see. Sometimes the simplest looking things take FOREVER!
It likely would have gone much faster if I had any formal (shit, or unformal) training in PHP, or at least in some coding language. But I’m enough of a computer nerd and problem solver that I managed to stumble my way through the page editor.
My only prior experience was inserting the dailymile widget on the right column of the site. After tackling Art By McDermott and stuck in PHP mode, I decided to make some tweaks to my own site, which are subtle, but get me closer to where I want the site to be.
That also got me to combine the About Me and About The Blog page into one About The Boilover page. This site has taken a life of it’s own far from what I originally intended it to be, and the process has been a lot of fun. Not that it’s over, by any stretch of the imagination. But now I have something to fall back on when people ask me what the site is about (historically I just made up some BS and let them figure it out).
I also figured out a way to get the images to look a little better in the Pix on the Right. I threw some new ones in there of things that put a smile on my face–something I could always use =)
So rather than work on any number of drafts last night, it felt good to get all techy. Check out the about page, it will give you a little more insight into the crazy work of The Boilover.
So you know anything about CSS?
I was going to transfer my site to wordpress but the standard column is too narrow. An easy fix in blogger where I can hack the HTML. Looks a little more intimitaing in wordpress.
Well I don’t know much about CSS other than what it stands for. But I think I know where to look to solve the width issue. I can show you what I know using my site as an example sometime and you can decide if the switch is worth it. I haven’t tried much else, but I’ve been pretty impressed with my WordPress experience thus far.
Sounds good, like I said, i could hack my way through HTML, but when I opened up the CSS doc, it looked like greek.
Between the two of us then we could figure it out I bet.