I realise that i totally hate websites design, and maintenance, mainly because as you can see I am really not very good at it. After nearly ruining this site, by trying to update the layout, I have to say I actually want the background to be black, but can't seem to get that to work, even though I downloaded the Minima Black template!
It took me about 6 hours yesterday to recover the site enough to look like it does now, and I still can't get a picture at the top! So in this heat my hair has been coming out rapidally. So think I would try and get round this by downloading Joomla and designing a totally new layout so I could include all my sites in one location, I have now wasted the best part of half a day trying to get it installed on my Mac.
I have decided that I need a web designer to make me a website, I am willing to pay for it as well. It would save me days of my life and knock years onto my life with the lack of stress. All I want is a website that I can update like a blog, have its own wiki, show my photos and my instructing website in one place. It can't be that hard can it?
5 comments:
Why not find someone to trade time with. You teach them climbing they fix your website, that way no money changes hands so nobody pays any tax and because both parties are using the skills they specialise in everything gets done in less total time.
Use Wordpress Mark. It's really a great content management system under the hood (not 'just a blog'). You can use plugins for wikis/forums and loads of great add-ons. In it's simplest form it's a very user friendly blog platform... super simple to install... super simple to tweak templates (there are loads of great free ones, just keep looking and narrow down the list, you'll find some gold nuggets).
If you want a developer to help you through the customisation of your Wordpress site, I'd recommend Tamsin (www.anorakgirl.co.uk) who is local.
Should you not be working on your dissertation? Llion
Whatever you do, make sure your blog section has RSS. Essential!
Also, while WordPress is good ( I use it for my personal blog), I know we had an absolute nightmare integrating their code into the Rockfax website and the Rockfax blogs, so much so that we've now given up and we certainly won't be using Wordpress in any way on UKC if we get around to UKC Blogs.
Given your existing skill set, and your financial situation, would an off the shelf website not be a good solution - you could pick up a web template that would have everything you need for less than £150 I'm sure.
Mark,
Seconded for Wordpress, I use it over here on the Totem blog and it's dead easy to set up and use and you can expand it with plugins etc.
Sam
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