Adding this second post to see if a small modification to my blog theme is working. You’ll note that the date only shows once every day now. so multiple posts will appear under one day heading.
The excellent team over at Themify found a way for this to work – the full details are here.
Thanks for your help guys!
It has been 18 months since I made any changes to my site – so I’ve deployed a new theme, Thememin from Themify. I’m a big fan of the minimal, typography focused look and I spent a long time evaluating different themes to ensure that they had the right styles for my site.
I had a few issues changing over the themes – caused by a rogue widget/plugin that was running in my old theme – Themify support was excellent, if a little hampered by our different timezones – but, as someone who works in support myself – I was impressed with the response and the willingness to take on the issue.
I’m still tweaking some of the fonts and features of the site – but hopefully everything will stay working whilst I tinker away in the background.
Let me know what you think…
Test post from my windows phone 7… Very nice app. Fully featured WordPress client that works perfectly on my HTC Mozart. Add & edit posts, pages, moderate comments, check stats all for multiple blogs. Excellent Stuff
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Another Monday, and another blogger kick starting a blog for the nth time.
In situations like this, it’s de rigeur to write about the personal circumstances that stopped you posting; the bereavement, the illness, the broken PC, the holiday or the difficulties at work.
I won’t bother. It’s simple. I fell off.
And I didn’t bother to get back on. Some of the above excuses are true in this case, but really, my motivation went.
It’s back now – and I’m ready for a new week, a new start, some new projects and some new words.
Not joining in, no stupid jokes, Shakespeare isn’t French (Radio 4) and the AA aren’t using jetpacks. Gordon Brown won’t run those posters. And this one is just daft.
Not playing, it’s not funny.
To make your site absolutely the best it can be, you need to have a great search facility to allow your visitors to drill down to the content they need. Now you can add a Bing search box to your site (just like the one over to the right).
Bing is the search engine from Microsoft, and it just keeps getting better and better, crisp results, cool features and a high pace of development makes it a growing choice amongst web users.
To install a Bing search box is really easy – there are only 4 steps to search perfection:
A very cool and tidy integration – and lets your readers get the maximum out of your site.
How else should site owners be pimping their web pages?
I’m rebooting and changing direction a little bit, and will begin that by paying some much needed attention to my site. I’ve had a bit of a redesign and made some things work that were broken – my DJ Mixes page is now completely functional, with links to all of my recent mixes now available. I’ve added some social networking tools to help bookmark the best posts.
I’m planning to focus my attention a little bit more towards my work – I recently went on a course delivered by Nicholas Bate on Personal Excellence, and he spoke about creating a personal brand, and being very deliberate about the processes you follow as you ‘put yourself out there’. I’ve been quite inspired since that course and have used the summer vacation time to reassess and plan out how I’ll do that.
I’m really excited about this next phase of my online life.
The more astute of you may have noticed that I have added a new feature into the sidebar (its over there on the right) – which shows my current Live Messenger status. It seems to work quite nicely, showing whether I am on or offline, and my current screen name (which I use for location).
Its really easy to setup your wordpress blog, or any website to show your Live Messenger status – I did it two or three minutes. Heres the steps:
There is a much more detailed tutorial on how to set this up over at Angus Logans blog – but honestly, if I can do it in a few minutes, then anyone can.
I look forward to hearing from you on messenger – and I hope this works for y’all!
I managed to break my website a bit – but its fixed now…welcome to all the visitors looking for info on the Morrissey gig on Monday night…its here.
I am completely happy with the look of this site – after a few days of tinkering I am now stopping. I’ve never liked looking at my site, and inevitably I stop blogging as a result. However, this time I’m happy, everything works and nothing is ugly. so this is how it will stay.
Full information on the tools I used to make it so – after the jump
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