As promised – here’s a quick rundown of how I tweaked the default WordPress theme to match my own website. Pretty much everything was achieved by editing either the style.css or header.php files. The changes to the basic proportions of the page were made by increasing the #page and #footer divs from 760 to 900pixels […]
The week before last I went on a ‘Blogging For Business’ course held at the Leitrim County Enterprise Board in Carrick-on-Shannon. It was a one-day course, but a lot of useful info was crammed in – WordPress, RSS feeds etc – I’d recommend it to anyone who maybe is just starting out setting up their […]
I’ve have made a few tweaks to the default WordPress theme – and well, it’s nearly there – as (hopefully) you can see from this page. I haven’t checked the layout integrity in many different browsers, and I expect there will be some strange things happening on sub-pages to this blog (for example – if […]
OK, in order to work out how WordPress sites are put together, I’m going to have to put on my Graphic Design Geek hat. (Yes I have one of those. It’s a black beret, by the way.) I’m intending to blog about the changes I’m making as I go along.
Here’s a thing. The default installation of WordPress I’ve just done is set up in such a way that the URL of each individual post is what they call ‘ugly’ – it contains numbers and question marks, rather than containing the actual text from the title of your post. And apart from being ‘ugly’, these […]
OK, you may remember seeing a little image in my last (first) post. Well, getting that to appear wasn’t quite as straightforward as I’d hoped. When I first tried to upload an image from my computer, I got an error message: failed to write to disk
I thought it might be useful to document the process of setting up this blog on my site as I went along. Step 1: I found this page on WordPress.org which details the procedure for installing WordPress on your own site (this assumes that you have your own domain, and FTP access to upload all […]