Getting the hang of WordPress
Posted by Ellee on Aug 8, 2006 in updates | 14 comments
I’m beginning to find my way around the labyrith on WordPress, it is “awesome”, as they say over the pond. I spent last night updating my blogroll, it should be easier to follow now compared to the mish-mash I had before, but please let me know if I have accidentally missed anyone out who includes me on their list.
Geoff showed me how to write posts in flickr (very clever stuff) and I have added loads of pics which you can see at the top of the home page; these will rotate after a while, it should be like an active photo gallery, very neat, really clever stuff and good fun.
As I need some practise, so here are few from a trip to The Globe. The chap in the green jacket is an old journa friend called Tim who I hadn’t seen for ages and was in the pits watching the performance while I sat in comfort. I could later spot him in my crowd shot, but I would never have known he was there if we hadn’t been into each other afterwards. He is a sub-editor at the Daily Telegraph.
Twenty minutes later: Right, I’ve had a go and I’m not managing to get the text to wrap around the pics, hence adding more pics to hide my failure. Does anyone have any bright ideas? I’m sure it must be simple.
Many thanks to Mike Rouse for the excellent suggesion on how to add these pics. It all seemed so simple when Geoff was here, and I have followed your advice on this post.
And it was Geoff’s son Nick, a chip off the old block, who came up with designing my weblog. Thanks a million Nick.
Geoff, what more could a girl possibly want for a very special, unique birthday present, it beats Chanel perfume and all that stuff and will give me much more pleasure.
Update: And this is how Geoff did it.
Hey there,
Glad to see you got the hang of images. I’m liking the site.
Keep up the good work.
Mike Rouse
Bluetorch Solutions
John, go for it. I love the fact that WordPress is an inter-active web and I can add other pages with info about myself or anything I am interested in. I still have to complete my side panel categories, I will do that when I get back from hols. There is only so much grief I can impose on poor Geoff, who has been very patient and kind in the extreme. He says Roman wasn’t built in a day, and I’m sure after using it for a couple of weeks, I will get the hang of writing posts and getting the text to wrap around the pics, which I am still struggling with. And WordPress is free too.
This blog is far more impressive than Blogger, I just wish that I had the courage to make the move. However, having struggled to master Movable Type over at “Prison Works” I think I’ll stay with the devil I know for the time being.
Peter, I hope you don’t give up on me. I’m sure it won’t take me long to get the hang of WordPress.
What I miss about Blogger is the pics that come with people’s comments, they alwasys make me smile.
Great new blog – why the move to WordPress? I’ll update my link to you today!
It should improve her ratings in the medium term – bizzarely WordPress seems far better for climbing Google (and other search engine rankings) than Blogger. I think it’s the linked titles that do it…
Peter from Putney – I agree people are fickle. You should be able to post a comment now without signing in!
I’ve also reduced Ellee’s image sizes on this post to a more realistic 200K from the previous 12MB..
The major advantage to WP is the comment moderation feature using Akismet plus Ellee gets a whole website rather than just a blog page.
I do hope that it doesnt affect her ratings in the medium term.
But the really BIG minus is that having visited Iain and Guido, both on Blogger, one has to re-sign onto WordPress to leave comments – frankly a little too much hassle for many – perhaps you’ll continue to use both, at least for a while, failing which I fear your traffic will diminish dramatically, we bloggers are all so fickle!
On the other hand, at least on here one isn’t required to interpret and key in those irritating and often illegible series of letters with oodles of q,x & j’s!
Amy, Yes it obviously is Tiga, like it says at the bottom of the page, What Nick did was design the header and what I did is obviously put the whole thing together like the FlickrRSS feed etc and as you probably have guessed I’m not a web designer or techie at all. Just a regular OAP with nothing better to do than go on long walks and tinker about iwith the net. [ Just thought tinker is probably not PC]
Amy, it was “created” for me, and I’m a very happy bunny.
Peter, I wanted to have more pages which hosted additional info and files, while still retaining the essence of blogging. I could never have a static website after this, I really enjoy being interactive, and Geoff thought this would be perfect for me.
Ellee – your move from blogger to wordpress………errm…. why?
it was Geoff’s son Nick, a chip off the old block, who came up with designing my weblog
You’re kidding, right? This is the Tiga theme, right out of the box. All you’ve done is add a header image and insert so many images that it takes forver to load.
Thanks Geoff, and to Tim who emailed me, I will see to this later, I must dash out now and won’t be back until the end of the day.
Hi Ellee, the image sizes are still way to big, each one is best part of 2MB, pity the poor devils on dial up. Maybe download PIXresizer http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pixresizer.html the text wraparound is an optin – will contact you in a while.