Slowly I turn…
So, I’m getting closer to actually writing here again but the thing that’s really causing me to stall is the stupid design of this site. I’ve got another one of my “neat” and “cool” designs all done up but every time I try to port it over to WordPress I get stuck. I just can’t wrap my head around WordPress’ use of templates and I’m beginning to believe I never will.
It just baffles me.
Of course, if my design was something simple I think I could handle it, but unfortunately for me my designs aren’t so easy as your standard: header, left column, center column, right column and footer. Oh, no. I have to be fricking unique and design something with overlapping columns, multiple image swaps on mouseovers and icons for links instead of standard text links.
Yeah, yeah, I’m a moron.
Anywaste, like I said, I’m getting really close to having the time to once again update on a regular basis. However, after once again being thwarted in my attempts to get this site design updated by my lack of Mad WordPress Coding Skilz, I came to the conclusion that I just didn’t care to continue banging my stubborn noggin on the concrete wall that is WordPress and that maybe, just maybe, I should give up my cool design.
Then I came to my senses and decided to ask for help.
So here I am, begging for help from anyone who might be able to take my design and images and creating the proper WordPress templates for me. Most likely no one will take me up on this without a bribe of some sort, so I came up with a silly idea of a nice exchange. In return for your help in turning my design into a set of standards compliant WordPress templates I will do one of the following (your choice):
- Design or redesign a website for you
- Write a funny post about you and link to your site in said post
- Be your best friend (for one day only and I chose the day)
- A happy dance
Please, won’t someone help this poor Geek?
I’d help, but my blog’s still running on MT 2.661. If it ain’t broke…
I’d help, but I don’t know PHP (I write my own; .NET is a very different animal). Seems it would be a simple case of string substitution, but these open-source people like to overcomplicate things. Try this page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes
Thanks Slackmaster. I’ve pored over the whole codex and keep running into things that cause my brain to bleed. And the forums are sometimes helpful, mostly not. :-)
And Sol, it’s nice to know that you old people still fear change and believe newfangled things are evil and of the devil.
I admire your desire to keep the site new and fresh; but I probably speak for the majority of your readers when I say “New content on the old medium is better than the old content on a new medium” :)
I’d help but I’m too stupid to be a geek…I can’t get my own blog to look the way I want because blogspot took away custom templates and I don’t really like any of their templates. Of course I am using a “blogs for dummies” site. LOL
post a static page with your design in just plain old html. then you can have all your readers working to try to put that around a wordpress blog. i’m sure i speak for others when i say that i really want to see the design!