Tuesday 8 January 2013: Making A Blog

A friend asked me how easy it was to make a blog.

'Easy.' I said, ommitting the fact that the hardest part of writing a blog isn't actually writing the posts. It's actuallly getting the blog to work, and look good working.

The simple fact of blogging is that you at least need some knowledge of html and hexaadecimal colour labels. Know these and it will become a lot easier. The resource for this is attached below.

In designing a blog, you basically need 4 (or 5) pages;

 - Index (the root page)
 - About
 - The Blog
 - The Archive (optional)
 - Contact

This will mean that people can navigate your site easily. It also means less work for you, as these 5 pages are already programmed into the menu above.

The hard bit of blog making is knowing how to use the code that has been set up for you, and/or looking around to find code that does what you want. The easiest way around this is to keep a copy of the .zip file AS YOU DOWNLOAD IT. Play around with ANOTHER copy, and try to figure it out. That way, if you screw it up, you haven't permanaently buggered your new blog.

Also, save often, and whenver you do something that works.

And if you really can't figure out either a) how to do something or b) what a certain piece of code does, ask me, and I will help you (if I know you / can be bothered / care.

Putting the site online is easy enough. But I won't explain it here. If you get to the point that you want me to explain it, ask me then. And if you don't then I haven't wasted my time.

Resources below;

That's all for now.