I want to improve my website and have started to experiment
with some changes.
My first improvement was to add an e-mail notification to my
blog. Google’s Feedburner allows you to sign up for notifications every time
there is an update to the blog. I tried it out myself and it works just fine.
Now I need to get people to sign up for it. I already have an e-mail list to
send out notifications, but I promised to send out notices no more than once a
month. The notices from this will be more frequent.
Up until now, I have created my website with html and php
files that I coded myself. I did add WordPress when I added my blog. More recently,
I looked into content management systems, which would make it easier for me to
maintain the website. I could add features, like comments, which I can’t do
very well now.
I hadn’t found any systems I felt comfortable with, and then
someone suggested I could use WordPress. Since I use it for my blog, I have a
reasonably good idea how it works. I set up a test website a couple weeks back
to experiment with. (http://www.dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/testsite/
)
In order to match the look of my current website I need to
create my own theme. That has been a challenge. I’ve run into and solved
several problems so far. I got a WordPress
for Dummies book, and while I found it useful, it doesn’t have a whole lot
on how to create new themes, especially with the features I want to include.
I still need to fix a few bugs yet and I want to add in all
of the pages before I take the new site live.
I sometimes wonder if I put too much time into improving my
website. Maybe I should put that time into my stories or films instead. On the
other hand, I think that a professional looking website does help. So far, I
don’t have huge numbers of people who visit my site, so I feel I have the time
to experiment with the site itself and with what I put on it.
Besides, I enjoy setting up ad improving the website.
This post is a mirror from my main blog http://www.dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/blog
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