Phase One: Complete!

• Posted: December 29, 2007
• |
• Author: Christina
• |
• Filed under: wordpress/website
• |
• Tags: No tags set for this entry.

What do you know, for the first time in recent memory, I finished something early.

So, two days ago, I said I wanted to have a basic work­ing ver­sion of my design/color mod com­plete by the first of the year. What do you know, for the first time in recent mem­ory, I fin­ished some­thing early. This web­site thing, “work in progress” has been a run­ning joke with me for no joke, like 7 years — so this is actu­ally pretty monumental.

I will finally have a blog not attached to a user­name — mean­ing I feel all pro­fes­sional and adult and what­not. Well, not really, but I fig­ured I needed a place­holder for my free­lance writ­ing stuff that wasn’t MySpace or Face­book, and I have wanted to get at least some ver­sion of a per­sonal home page in a mod­ern form up forever.

I decided to use this URL, rather than Filmmania.net or PlanetChristina.com (warn­ing, nei­ther of those goes any­where) because I still hope to do some­thing cooler with one or both. Unless the bitch who owns ChristinaWarren.com wants to sell me the URL on the cheap, this is my next best option. And I mean bitch in the best pos­si­ble way (you never know who is read­ing). My next steps are to iron out a few things with the color mod (which I’m quite proud of, I must say) and fig­ure out the best way to inte­grate my Twit­ter tweets.

Thanks again to Chris Mur­phy for pro­vid­ing the source to his AWESOME theme. I truly believe that the biggest hur­dle imped­ing my devel­op­ment of this site was find­ing a good design or even worse, tak­ing the time to try to cre­ate one from scratch. I’m pretty good with Pho­to­shop and I can make stuff more than pass­able look­ing — but I’m not a designer, and I don’t have the patience to build a theme from scratch (maybe if I were moti­vated enough, but it’s just SO much work). At the same time, I really wanted to avoid get­ting a Word­Press theme that every­one else uses. This way, I get some­thing that looks very, very cool, and I’ve color mod­ded it to make it unique to my site. I’m excited.Out!

• (2) Comments
• Permalink
• RSS 2.0
•