Wordpress is now my CMS of choice for any freelance work I do. Once you get the hang of developing themes for Wordpress, it’s incredibly easy, and you can pretty much lay it out however you want, my first theme was simply the one you’re looking at now, basic, but functional. I finished developing a theme for a school website I’m doing at the moment and I got it together as smooth as if I was building a static page. Usually when I’m designing a layout for a web page, I just mock the thing up in Fireworks first, get it looking how I want, that probably takes the longest, I have trouble getting a layout I feel good about. Once I’m happy I slice up the images I need and then go write the code (don’t worry I don’t export the Fireworks HTML, yuck!). I think the main thing I like about Wordpress is the pure simpleness of the administration section, it’s basic as you like, and should be easy to show not so savvy people how to use it. A lot of people I’ve shown the Joomla admin section to have looked at it a bit wide eyed, but Wordpress is a lot more straight forward. Until recently I thought it was just a blog application, but if you wanted to, you could ignore that altogether and just setup a site with editable static pages. I’m almost done with the current freelance Wordpress site I’m doing at the moment and I’ll plug it when I’m done.

If you want to learn how to develop your own Wordpress theme, I recommend the Cyberhackz tutorial, it’s straight forward and to the point, and honestly, once you’ve done one, you’re ready to go. One suggestion I’d have is to follow the tutorial with an XHTML layout already developed, and cut and past the segments you need from that into the segmented theme files, works quite well. After that, keep yourself a blank basic theme for reference.

Here’s a handy tip to fellow drinkers out there. Want to get rid of the hangover headache as well as the tiredness and grumpiness? Cold & Flu tablets my friend, the ones with Pseudoephedrine in them. They get rid of the headache a treat plus they perk you up a bit and you don’t feel so mopey.

3 Days after Dying, it rose from the dead. PRAISE BABY CHEESES. I was sitting in the lounge when I heard a funny noise, what the fuck? my phone’s alarm is going off, sure enough, I go to my phone and it’s happily playing the generic Sony Ericsson alarm sound. Now I don’t have to go buy a crappy phone to wait out my contract.

Well all the whacky holidays and messed up weeks are over, now we can go back to getting drunk in the sun just for the hell of it. My new years was good, a small house party with a kick ass 3 metre diameter kiddie pool, just over half a metre deep. On a 40 degree day you can’t ask for anything better, I’m just surprised the pool lasted the entire night without someone falling on the pool and water flooding the entire backyard. One downer on the night though was my stupid self getting into the pool while still having my mobile phone in my pocket. It wouldn’t have been submerged for more than 10 seconds but it’s dead, which is particularly annoying, I once put my Nokia through the wash and it still survived. So I dare say that will be the replacement. To tie me over I’ll have to buy a $50 job somewhere, my crappy phone insurance doesn’t cover water damage, god damnit.

Ahh well back at work soon, I’m still struggling to work out what day it is.

I’m a lil drunk, I’m sunburnt I’m full of food.

Merry Christmas.