Working with WordPress

Posted by David | Filed under Technology

As you can see, Talkabout is finally getting updated, with an actual design instead of the default bare-bones template. Since planning on a website is overrated, I’m designing some of the smaller bits and pieces of this site (read: anything other than the frontpage) as I go — in other words, a lot of things are probably going to look funky for a while. I’ll do my best to get done as quickly as possible.

P.S. - If this site looks horrible on your Windows PC, it’s because I haven’t tested it on Internet Explorer yet. In the meantime, go out and buy yourself a Mac Mini. Believe me, you’ll be glad you did.

Update (05/02/05): After taking a break yesterday and looking at the design, I was very content–that is, until I realized that there’s essentially no easy way to nagivate to archived posts. Seeing as I’m fresh out of ideas on how to display the categories/archives, I’d ask for your opinions, except that comments look really funky right now.

Permalink | May 1st, 2005

2 Responses to “Working with WordPress”

  1. Bradford Says:
    May 3rd, 2005 at 4:41 pm

    I have been eyeing your Typepad blog for a long time and I just want to complement you on the overall layout and design. It is magnificent!! I wanted to know just how much time, effort, money would it take for me to have such a beautiful blog. Did you design it yourself? Do you know anyone I could get to design one for me? Thanks for the inspiration!!

  2. David Perini Says:
    May 4th, 2005 at 12:07 am

    Thank you! I’m not sure if you’re referring to the previous design or this one, which is roughly the 6th iteration of the website since 2001. Though I’m proud of it, I still have a lot to learn about design and layout.

    The time, effort, and cost on doing a weblog redesign would depend on the size and style of your website. I’ll try to contact you directly to talk about it more in detail.

    For more inspiration, check out CSS Beauty and The Web Standards Awards.