finish the website for my business

I have got half-way through customising a Wordpress theme for my site, but am leaning now towards making the main site static XHTML/CSS rather than Wordpress.

I can work on the same stylesheet for the static pages so that if I want to then add a weblog/podcast later on (as is my aim) then I can add the Wordpress file hierarchy in a separate sub-folder and keep the look & feel of the site as a whole.

Also would like to include more meaningful and useful content – probably pages on social networking, along the lines of how to use them effectively in a small business, along with the pros and cons of each one.

After much thought, I decided that I need to create a personal look in Wordpress for my site, as I would like to have a blog as well as some static pages.

Since Wordpress is something I would like to offer to other small business owners in the area, it’s something I should really get to grips with soon. When I last did a lot of web designing, I pretty much restricted myself to use of HTML and CSS, with some Javascript as well. Now I see my need including knowledge of PHP, MySQL and perhaps other technologies such as Perl, and in time, perhaps Ruby and Rails.

But first I need to recall the old saying which runs something like ‘Tell the world what you are going to do, but first show it’.

This doesn’t apply anymore, so I’m removing it from my list.

got the name, figuring out google apps, and pretty much reintroducing myself to html and such. ccs is nice, but totally alien to me. but i’m learning!

i missed notepad <3

and soon, i can have a little, professional home on the web for clients to find me

I’ve set up a new family web site and completely revamped the look of my personal blog. But I haven’t touched my business site yet. So this is only progress in the sense that I at least have a better idea of what the site should look like when I’m done (albeit I still need to decide which photo I should use in the masthead, or whether I need to go take some more photos because none of the current ones is quite right).

Most of the work I need to do is in the area of producing some written content, though, and I haven’t done anything at all there.

I registered my domain at the same time that I registered my business name (during the incorporation process), and I’ve even got hosting set up. But that was in May, and here I am in August, still with a placeholder web site. Looks like I’ve got some work to do.

Now defunct.