So I’ve worked on this site long enough and I thought I’ll start publishing it. That was the hard part. Another plugin added to allow me to move over from the sub folder to the main site. First attempt didn’t work, so I had to erase it and start again. This time it did! And just exactly how I wanted it.
It has taken me EIGHT years to get to this point, from concept to final product. I had several tries, and a lot were unsuccessful.
I tried “Artisteer”, I went from WordPress to Joomla with no success for the templates, I tried other template builders and other web authoring tools (Dreamweaver, WYSIWYG, NetObjects) and all this in my spare time. I couldn’t even open up my old site in NOF and it was the same version.
All it took was a new site with an accidental discovery, I could do what I always wanted to do, create a template using WordPress and that was 3 weeks ago from memory. A static to a dynamic page. It took me a long time to get here but I f inally done it.
It is based on WordPress’s Twenty Twenty Five theme with a lot of customisations, so you will see some WordPress-like stuff in here and the side bar will disappear on some pages as templates – I’ll fix that in due course. As I was creating this one, I found another experimental WordPress site I started in 2016 that I forgot about, so I amalgamated all the posts over to this site which is why there is a gap between 2018 and 2023. Actually, this site was started because my mum suggested it with my mental health issues, to start blogging all over again and talk about it – anything previous to those doesn’t exist as it was on Joomla (which got deleted), I do have a “Live Jornual” out on the web somewhere which was from 2003 to 2008 when I got too busy.
Still, feedback is welcome and here is a screenshot of the current site together with the old WIP site and the test page from 2017. I hope it will look more like it in the future. Also somewhere, I have an open office drawing somewhere and that is the original concept.
Comments? Please let me know. I’ll update my CV in due course with the web addresses and the rest of the pages.