I think I’m finished with the initial styling of this blog. I’m going for a clean look, so it should be simple to navigate. I decided to use a picture of me from The Rob’s wedding. From that, I decided to use the colors in that image to create the rest of the site. The problem is that once I change the header image, I’ll need to redo the rest of the colors. It will have to do for now, since I don’t have the skill or the software to create my own header.
For awhile I’ve thought about having a real blog, but I’ve either created one offs (mrrofl and my favorite part) or I’ve just decided against it because I couldn’t think of one topic I would want to devote the time and effort.
Lately, I’ve realized that I don’t really need to have one topic. I’ll just write whatever I want, and tag it accordingly. This is what my friend and coworker, James, does at StrivingLife. I figured I’ll do the same as well. So, as for what to expect..I have no idea. My number one goal is to just keep this active, regardless of the audience.
The activity is important to me for two reasons. One, I’d just like to do more writing. This is a venue for me to do it with, and I have enough opinions that I share via conversation, I might as well write them down. Two, it gives me an area where I can work and try different things in regards to web design. Just setting this blog up, I’ve learned about WordPress and php.
So, enjoy. Eventually I’ll probably add more than just a blog to rmlumley.com. My next project is to collect Wedding pictures and put them up on Picassa or Flickr. From there, who knows.
Good luck with your site, Rob. I originally hosted my site through the UofM then moved over to 1and1.com when they had a two years for free deal. I used Movabletype and went through all of the install and maintenance. That was before Blogger and WordPress were so prevelant. At the time, I liked the fact that I could endlessly tweak and add features to it. But over time I found it more work than I would have liked. Adding things like video had big work arounds and using Flickr was never possible. I’m sure that’s now changed with a newer version. I used the hosted version of WordPress a couple years ago for a class and really liked it. Adding video links to Youtube was a breeze. Best of all, I was inundated with spam entries (thousands at a time). I’ve imported everything into it from the old site but need to go back and do all the images, etc.
Anyway, have fun. I think WordPress is great. I’ll look forward to reading your blog.
So far, I’m really impressed with WordPress. I took the default theme, stripped out the styles, and built this one. With all of the plugins available, it’s really simple to add a new feature and insert it in as a Widget (ie. Twitter app on the right).
We should link to each others’ blogs.
I’m paulzukowski.wordpress.com