the anti experience of Ed

I am not a web site designer or developer by any means, but as part of relaunching what will be a much more active online presence and as a way of getting my software and art projects out to the world once again, I set myself a challenge to use wordpress to drive my website. I wanted to have a single wordpress install drive two different blog pages as well as static pages with different header and sidebars. I don’t know a lick of PHP and my HTML is passable but rusty.

So how did I do?

I’ll be blogging over the next few days my process in getting there, including my site mapping, dealing with some wacky wordpress inconsistencies that drove me up the wall (and how I got around them), how I’ve managed to compartmentalize different posts to different pages to give my site a sense of organization, and what I think of using wordpress as both a blogging and CMS platform at the same time.

A caveat - I am not a professional web designer or developer (although I helped build small parts of the blogging system at a previous job), so some of you will find my experience and/or views elementary, wrong, or wacky, but I’d love to hear from y’all about what you think anyway!