New Blog | by Theme Lab | Mashups | Lazy??
Posted by Mr West | Filed under Coding, Cool Things, Design
I stumbled upon this theme that you are currently looking at while I was looking though several… its funny as I stuck with a them by: styleshout | Theme by: Theme Lab . I know its a bit of a cop out in the sense of not designing my own but the thing is it would probably take me weeks to get to grips with doing my own desig…. besides i intend to change the main header image to something that i have done.
I have been really enjoying adding all sorts of great plug ins to my blog and have found the lightbox 2 one pretty cool along with the all in one SEO one… i have also added super cache and that will hopefully speed things up….(its not like i had the type of traffic that they were talking about.. They said plus one hndred can update the cash frequently so that’s the setting i have put it on… I have also enabled the external link url plug in so that my nav bar or any post can link to an external url…. its a great one as i have other links that i want people to go too..
The problem or dilema i have is that i am not really good enough to design my own wp blog with all the PHP and coding that is needed but i am good at tweeking things and utilizing all the different API’s and plug ins and various functions…
PLEASE let me know your thoughts as i feel that i should be doing it all my self but what’s the point if others have done it and can probably done it better… ( i know that sounds apathetic or quite post-modern of me) its more of a case of learning from others and increasing this ever increasing web cocktail that is evidently the way forward.
The thing is that worpress has thousands of people working together on optimizing code and its all free so what more can one ask for.
I intend to migrate my whole site and portfolio over to worpress as its by far the easiest system that i have come across and it will help me update things quicker compared to editing and ading in each thing int eh html and then uploading this via FTP. Currently my bounce rate is terrible according to my google analytics as my home page is rubbish and boring.. so having it as my blog wil enable me too keep things interesting for my viewers..
So Comments please on if i am being lazy and what your thughts are on onlie mashups of plugins and other web aplications. PLEASE LET ME KNOW
I am a chap that really enjoys photography and things that look nice. I am currently on my PGCE year at Bath University which is training me to be a ICT teacher. I love playing rugby and going Kitesurfing in Kenya which is my home away from home.
August 10, 2008 at 2:14 am
Really like that header image. Nice work!
August 13, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Cheers Leland i am glad you like it… i love all the theme lab work
December 15, 2011 at 2:23 pm
OK. I’ll leave you folk to chatter among yourselves happily, like you usually do.
I simply cannot stand discussiing topics with people who routinely insult and defame.
December 20, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Maybe this is one of the reasons why Apple don’t want to include “Flash” in their devices, so they don’t have to apologize for the inconvenience, isn’t Adobe.