Archive for July, 2009
Yet Another Theme
Posted by Jonathan Kinney in Website Software, WordPress on July 31, 2009
I had to scrap that last theme, it would not let me change the “Blogroll” to something else. I mean what is a “Blogroll”? I don’t link to other blogs, and if I did, I would not call it a blogroll. I suppose some people do get into this blogging community thing, and that is cool, but I don’t have time to do that kind of stuff. I have some things that I want to say that I believe others could find useful at one level or another, and I want a place where I can share it with people in a modern fashion. In the future, maybe I will link to some specific ones which share some good or interesting information, but for now, I am even coming up short with what to put on my “Aboot” page.
The theme I had to scrap was called “Slate“. I decided to go with one which was clean, shadowed, textured, and just all around neat and simple. This one is called “Fusion“, and I found it somehow following several links while investigating some RSS plugin that I think might be able to take and generate posts on this site from an RSS feed. I was looking that up in hopes to archive and store old stuff I posted on my blogs in other locations like my MySpace account.
Moving forward with WordPress
Posted by Jonathan Kinney in Website Software, WordPress on July 27, 2009
Yay! I have setup a new theme, and am pleased with it. I set it up last week sometime, after trying all kinds of different ones that just didn’t have what I wanted. Ok, so it is not really colorful or flashy, but it turns out this one seems to have a slick enough layout, it does not detract from the fact that this wordpress is there for the articles, not everything else around it.
I have also come to the conclusion that I will have all kinds of topics, screw the themed topic idea. I have all kinds of stuff rattling around in my head waiting to fall out and splatter on a blog somewhere. To tell you the truth, it is all connected anyway. For example, my biblical world view and belief in God will reflect in all the things that I do and talk about, or at least I hope so, considering that view point means that I believe God put everything here, for a reason, and our lives should reflect that in one way or another. I will also be replicating some posts onto another site, which from the get go, I planned to have setup as sort of a portfolio, and technical information repository. I don’t want to get too caught up in making sure I only post specific things on this site, and not on the other, I will just copy as I see fit.
Now I will be tweaking the rest of this WordPress install, as at this moment, I have not even customized the about page. For now I will keep it basic. In time, I am sure things will change, but one step at a time.
I Need a New Theme!
Posted by Jonathan Kinney in Website Software, WordPress on July 23, 2009
Bleh… Not a fan of the default theme, that looks nasty. Ok, not to insult the wonderful people who put it together of course, but I want something with more color, less starchy blocky and plain. I am a colorful person, often hard to figure out, and many people do not understand me. I need a theme that can reflect a little more of my personality, with variety, color, and style. I guess the search begins…. Well at least it will as soon as I have some time to do it.
An Actual Live Site on My Domain
Posted by Jonathan Kinney in Uncategorized on July 23, 2009
Welcome to my blog. It has been many years since I purchased this and a few other domains, so I figured it was about time I set something up on them other than the stuff that happens in the background that no one sees. For years now I have used this domain and a few others to test technology and setup sites on various other platforms and hosting systems. Usually it has been to test out a new control panel, or get use to a new system that I would support. Often I have used them for development of different technologies or, for example, setting up and debugging a piece of software so I could get the developers up to speed on features I needed it to have before I could implement it in production.
This is a new day, and even though this is my first install of WordPress, this is going to be a publicly visible and active production site. I have not yet set my mind on the exact theme of this site, other than the fact that I will probably be ranting about something in the technical realm from time to time, often related to my position as a Data Systems Specialist at Advantagecom Networks, Inc. We will see what comes up.