We’ve made a lot of progress on bluebarb. The main structure of the site is up and the instructional article is written. I’m not liking the web template. I tried to turn on the widgets and I don’t like the way they look and they’re interfering with the text. I may still have to get the images shrunk down a bit but even with that I’m not sure this template is going to make it.
There are so many good Wordpress web templates out there but so many of them have some clever part about them or an image that is so unique to a niche that I would have to redo a lot of it just to get it to work.
On the other end of the spectrum is paying for a template according to my own design, and somewhere in the middle is building my own, something I can do from the technical perspective but which never looks good from the graphic design perspective.
This week I’ve relaunched the Bluebarb website. I reworked it to use WordPress as the backend (previously it was pages created on Dreamweaver) and I’ve put a temporary homepage in place that lists the Google gadgets.
A friend is working on a tutorial that will help non-techie users add Bluebarb gadgets to their iGoogle pages. I’ll add that as a WordPress page.
Bluebarb is a set of iGoogle widgets that a friend and I coded up. These widgets simplify ordering Amazon products and keep users up to date on hot new items.
We’ve made a lot of progress on bluebarb. The main structure of the site is up and the instructional article is written. I’m not liking the web template. I tried to turn on the widgets and I don’t like the way they look and they’re interfering with the text. I may still have to get the images shrunk down a bit but even with that I’m not sure this template is going to make it.
