More website design.
This time, its not my own! I mentioned a couple of days ago, I did another test, just to see how Instagram worked and mentioned it was for another site. You can see this site when it’s up on https://tymaran52.wordpress.com/ Well, I went to a pub and got my iPad out, I never thought about developing a site on the worlds smallest computer, but I did it and, create a basic barebones of a site. Its only four pages. Its also proves one other thing, what peoples intentions for sites are. Her’s is to promote her dog history with the…
Another test! With Instagram.
This is to just link my instagram account to my site… oh wait! This actually might take some explaining. I’ve been producing my website for a month at the moment, so my mum came up with an idea “I want to put more on Instagram for Irish Red and White Setters”. Here’s a better suggestion, how about a full on WordPress blog and site? Well, I started it and it doesn’t have to be WordPress, it can be anything. The only thing stopping you is either A) Skills B) Experience C) Plug-ins unless you want to get your hands dirty.…
”I’m fed up with being cooked everyday, let’s have some snow!”
He isn’t far wrong! Now if you read my about me page, you’d realise where I live. If you looked at the weather for the past 3 months of where I live, you can see that another problem doesn’t bode well (that is being a redhead, here is a post of the problems). I got a message from my dad while at work, it said with what the title states and to be honest, right now? I rather have snow! It is a tinderbox here. It really is! I took these photos earlier in the month, somewhere around the 5th…
The site looks like its getting bigger
All through looking through my hard drive. I know a lot of people have been looking for my content for years and isn’t available anywhere anymore – this is what this site was suppose to address, but while clearing out my hard drive and putting what is left as there is a lot of duplicates on said NAS/Hard drive, I came across this folder from a previous site: I had to edit some of the files out, but yes, that is a LOT I need to put up, in addition to what’s up already. This will take a long time…
Going through my back and forward catalouge
When I produced this site, I never thought I’ll be going through my past and present catalogue of Trainz content nor the extent of how much I made, I mean just look! The worst bit is that is scratching the surface. There is a lot more I haven’t added and there is more in the files directory that I need to catalogue and post on the page. If you think that is bad, my Trainz install is someting else of a lot of self made stuff.Shows you that even though I am quiet most of the time, in the background,…
It’s show time!
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,…
More site development – the side bar
And I worked from home today, spending quite a bit of time on it. This must have been the most frustrating aspects of creating a WordPress site, but I cracked it finally. The good news is once I create it as a template part, that’s it, it all automatically updates when it refers to that template part…. That was the easy bit!The hard bit? I did some settings changes and I wanted a load of images to represent stops on a route map, so I created a load of images (the LinkedIn, Facebook logo and donate button come from their…
Donate button appearance
Something you may of noticed that’s been added to the sidebar is a donate button. I’ll be clear first, it is completely optional. I’ve tried to put it in an unintrusive space, so you don’t get bombarded with it being put in your face and this will be the only place I will “promote it”. I’m not going to push it in everyone’s face as I am not like that. I’m not driven solely by money. I got targets, I got desires, agreed, but money is the root of all evil so I’m trying to not get corrupted by money…
Finding an old site.
I thought with WordPress, this would be my only site, turns out I forgotten one! Oops. I had a wordpress.com account with a blog that I was planning to turn into a full site and mess with WordPress, then transfer things over, its not the first time I’ve done that, I created a few internal WordPress sites (they didn’t work – surprise surprise) and get used to new features and create the site I’d like to see. I’m closer now than I have ever been.So, to complete everything including posts from 2016 (when I was actually Train Presentation), I’ve exported…
WordPress sometimes
So an entry of (another?) gripe about how WordPress works. Its a bit alien to me, its a bit troublesome to me, but I wanted to replace my WIP site with a site that’s got a CMS system, since its easier to update and everywhere else is going CMS. Plus for mobile use, its rather flexible. So I came up with a few ideas and the original one was to use a single WordPress site, then I messed with template, then I struggled to deal with templates. I used Joomla! before and that was OK – until I had no…