Please comment on my new blog [telecom]

[Telecom Digest Moderator]

There's a company here in my neighborhood that is looking for experts
in a program called WordPress, so I'm looking for advice and how-to's
that will get me up to speed quickly with the "new" way that websites
are written. As a learning tool, I've started a blog using WordPress
as its foundation: please visit it and provide any advice you can
about the layout, look-and-feel, tips-and-techniques, and especially
about ways that I can use it to improve the digest.

ob telecom: The blog might develop into a place to have opinions that
are a bit too outre for the digest. Let's see.

http://timesucker.homelinux.org:8003

Bill

[tlvp]

Post by Telecom Digest Moderator
There's a company here in my neighborhood that is looking for experts
in a program called WordPress, so I'm looking for advice and how-to's
that will get me up to speed quickly with the "new" way that websites
are written. As a learning tool, I've started a blog using WordPress
as its foundation: please visit it and provide any advice you can
about the layout, look-and-feel, tips-and-techniques, and especially
about ways that I can use it to improve the digest.
ob telecom: The blog might develop into a place to have opinions that
are a bit too outre for the digest. Let's see.
http://timesucker.homelinux.org:8003
Bill

Learning tool I'm sure it is. But as a diary of quotidian events,
I hope you won't be offended if I say, it's not of much interest
to third persons. It should, rather, be more than just such a diary.

I will agree, though, that, sooner or later, there's nothing one has
ever learned that doesn't turn out to be one's current lifesaver :-) .

Cheers, and don't stop on my account, that's not what I'd want, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

***** Moderator's Note *****

I'll try to bear up under the strain! ;-)

I didn't write that request very well, but I'll be more clear this
time.

Don't worry about what's in the blog now: as much as it pains any
world-class writer to have a humdrum reception for a new work, I can
take the criticism OK.

What I'm looking for is knowledge, pointers, how-to's, etc. I want to
learn a lot about WordPress, and quickly, so I put the offer to use
the blog for telecom out there, and I'm hoping that I'll learn about
the program and its management that way.

Bill Horne
Moderator

[T]

Post by Telecom Digest Moderator
There's a company here in my neighborhood that is looking for experts
in a program called WordPress, so I'm looking for advice and how-to's
that will get me up to speed quickly with the "new" way that websites
are written. As a learning tool, I've started a blog using WordPress
as its foundation: please visit it and provide any advice you can
about the layout, look-and-feel, tips-and-techniques, and especially
about ways that I can use it to improve the digest.
ob telecom: The blog might develop into a place to have opinions that
are a bit too outre for the digest. Let's see.
http://billhorne.com/ [Updated 2012-11-03 - Moderator]
Bill

Depending on the hosting service you use a lot of them include WP
(WordPress) by default.

I see you've put yours on [root] - cool. In my case I just used the
appendage /blog

The thing about WP is you can customize the crap out of it if you know
CSS.

[Bill Horne]

Post by T

Post by Telecom Digest Moderator
There's a company here in my neighborhood that is looking for experts
in a program called WordPress, so I'm looking for advice and how-to's
that will get me up to speed quickly with the "new" way that websites
are written. As a learning tool, I've started a blog using WordPress
as its foundation: please visit it and provide any advice you can
about the layout, look-and-feel, tips-and-techniques, and especially
about ways that I can use it to improve the digest.
ob telecom: The blog might develop into a place to have opinions that
are a bit too outre for the digest. Let's see.
http://billhorne.com/ [Updated 2012-11-03 - Moderator]

Depending on the hosting service you use a lot of them include WP
(WordPress) by default.
I see you've put yours on [root] - cool. In my case I just used the
appendage /blog
The thing about WP is you can customize the crap out of it if you know
CSS.

I know a fair amount about CSS, but I'm looking for something else,
and I'm not sure of how to describe it. ISTM that Drupal and WordPress
have become like Java: a standard platform underneath new code that
serves as if it were the "operating system", i.e., it provides a
standard "interface" that allows easy portability from one Drupal or
WordPress site to another.

I guess I'm looking for the key to the "server room". I want to do
something more than just-another-vaguely-familiar website, and I need
to know if WordPress or Drupal can serve as a new kind of Java for web
development, i.e., if I can use them to build commercial or other
sites that aren't like the usual cookie-cutter affairs.

I hope I'm writing clearly. Let me put this another way: is
TOC-in-vertical-column-on-left|Content-middle|Breadcrumbs-at-top so
ingrained in the typical user's mind that no further work needs to be
done? If so, then I will accept that my question is moot. If not, then
I need to know if Drupal or WordPress can take me beyond the usual
layouts.


Bill

[Thad Floryan]

Post by Bill Horne
[...]
I guess I'm looking for the key to the "server room". I want to do
something more than just-another-vaguely-familiar website, and I need
to know if WordPress or Drupal can serve as a new kind of Java for web
development, i.e., if I can use them to build commercial or other
sites that aren't like the usual cookie-cutter affairs.
I hope I'm writing clearly. Let me put this another way: is
TOC-in-vertical-column-on-left|Content-middle|Breadcrumbs-at-top so
ingrained in the typical user's mind that no further work needs to be
done? If so, then I will accept that my question is moot. If not, then
I need to know if Drupal or WordPress can take me beyond the usual
layouts.

Two free (and different) eBooks about WordPress:

<http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/for-mobile/WordPress_Guide_-_MakeUseOf.com.pdf>
and
<http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/for-mobile/MakeUseOf.com_-_WordPress.pdf>

should get you started. :-)

Thad