I’m well on my way towards getting my new website up and running. Several evenings spent in front of the laptop have brought about the site and blog, skinned to look the same.
My site is an example of how I like to work. By leveraging Creative Commons licensed templates (this one had a requested $15 donation to remove the link back to the designer), I’m able to get the site protyped quickly. I left the links in the css code, but didn’t want to link directly in the html in case the site turned NSFW or something. Here’s the link, though if anyone’s interested:
The photography is stock. Since we’re just looking for web graphcis, the smallest $1 graphics are fine. They are actually too big.
The hardest part of this project was modifying enough of the Wordpress theme to match the theme of the site itself. Besides that the site was chopped up, wrapped in PHP code to templatize it, and had some variables added to make it a bit smarter.
Still didn’t happen instantly, but we’re off and running in about 4-5 hours. Not bad for $18 worth of expense.
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