Girlbandgeek Blog

I am a little frustrated with my (lack of) progress in my path as a web designer. I am finding it challenging on a number of levels – creatively and technically. Because I feel a little blocked, I am also frittering away the time I should be actually working on a site. But still, I am having my small successes.

I have been tinkering with the design of danieloxenhandler.com. I think I figured out how to have a static home page for the site, and still have blog pages that are accessible from the sidebar menu. (Basically I followed this method.) I am still using the classic theme which is pretty random looking. But hey, at least that’s some progress.

Anyways, I guess I’ll just go back to studying the WP Codex and trying to understand how this glorious beast is all put together.  I need to find that page I found earlier in the Codex which linked to the “starter” themes which were adapted to modifying to fit one’s needs.

I decided to register danieloxenhandler.com the other day for my job search and web design business. I am fond of the girlbandgeek handle and domain name, but it probably doesn’t do much for my employment in the corporate world. I plopped a default wordpress install down in the main folder. I want to explore the idea of using WP as CMS – by tweaking my own site, adding static pages as well as blog updates.

I just added the domain into my cPanel, so it’s not even reachable by url. Probably by tomorrow. Okay, so what it needs is:

• 2 or 3 things for a fresh WP install
• Static main page
• blog
• theme design
• contact page