With all that free time that I mentioned in here I have taken WordPress and turned it into a nice new site. I am pleased with the outcome as I am not that good at graphics so they are simple but most of the styling comes from the coding, this is what I am good at. I started off with the latest version of WordPress and installed the K2 theme. This is the theme that this website currently has but I have taken the sample stylesheet that they provide and created the new style from with that. The biggest problem I had was when I started making pages because to get the layout I wanted I couldn’t simple copy and paste the code from the original version of the website, so after a some more coding I finally got the page layout that I wanted. As an added extra I install my hit counter and JSSpamBlock to prevent the comments being filled up with adverts. Once the DNS settings update you can see the new site here.
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
I’ve had my friend banner on my site for some time and in return he got me to make him a 88×31 pixel banner for his website. So I made this small banner for my Blue Square Linux website. I also have this on Kustom PCs forums but it looks a little out of place on it’s own next to the big banner for my personal site. Today I made two more 88×31 pixel banners for this website and my personal one so I will have all three of them on the forums next to each other. To make them look more interesting I will use a PHP script to gather todays hits for each of the sites and display it next to the banner. You are welcome to use the banners to link to my site. You can find them here.
I downloaded Linux from scratch and started working though the book. Linux From Scratch, LFS for short, is a book that guides you through how to make you’re very own linux distribution and I decided that I would call mine Blue Sqaure Linux. I bought the domain www.bluesquarelinux.co.uk and then noticed that it would probably be a long time before I’m able to produce a working linux OS, let alone something that I could let other people download. I decided to turn my domain into a shop and for the past few weeks I’ve been selling Debian GNU/Linux and Fedora. I’d also got my site linked to from the Kustom PCs forums and Idle Entity who I seem to have been plugging like crazy recently. See as I have a lot of free time I might take wordpress and make a nice customized version for the shop or maybe build my own cart and blogging system.