I’ve had this idea in my head for ages but I finally decided to give it ago. I’m really pleased with how this blog worked out as I’ve never customized a Wordpress theme to this extent. I took the basic coding and css and rewrote it so it worked a little more. I still have to get it to validate but that’s another project for another day. But the layout used to be in a table, so I took it and put it into divs and then I played with it to make it widget ready. I’m so happy I was able to make that work.
It’s a blog for romance novels — for release dates, fanlistings, and reviews and whatever else I can think of to add to the site. There isn’t a lot there yet, it’s a work in progress but I’ll continue to add entries over the next few days.
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I bought two new books to add to my ever growing computer application library. This purchase brings the total to, er, five. I’m working on it 
I bought Excel 2007: The Missing Manual for Starters and Wordpress for Dummies. I bought the Excel book because I want to expand what I know about the program, obviously. I know how to do a lot of basic functions, but I’ve only scratched the surface. I’d like to be able to do more complicated things. I bought the Wordpress book because I’m trying to learn how to create my own themes and I haven’t quite found anything online that I like. It’s also a nice resource just in case.
The other books I have are more web design oriented. Two are about PHP/MySQL and the other is CSS. I want to pick up a few more designed for XHTML, Search Engine Optimization and whatnot. It never hurts to do some research.
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I got a call today from the HR recruiter at Commerce Bank to set up my second interview. It’s on Monday. I really wanted an extra day so I could hit the salon and get my hair cut and maybe talk myself into the expense of getting my nails done. It’s until 1:30 so maybe I could swing it. Hmm…will have to check the schedule at P&B. Maybe Mondays are still $3 haircut days down there.
I’m seriously so anxious to get back to work. I need to earn some money so I can get back on track financially and put money away for things I really want. Like more design books. I’m obsessed with them. I think I’m going back out and picking up one of those Wordpress books. I keep spending half my time Googling some for some specific code and never finding it.
I really have to get back to the Nora site but I’m beginning to think that Wordpress and Enthusiast were not meant to be together and I really hate that I’d have to abandon my ideas for that and the new concept for my Jennifer Cruise fanlisting (which has been woefully neglected since I launched it, I feel awful). I’m going to dig back into that tomorrow. I also still have solve my Codesort problem. I’m thinking of just uploading another installation to each domain, use the database and hope that solves it.
I bit the bullet today and posted for a beta for my little fanfiction project. I tend to write better and faster if I know some sort of feedback is forthcoming and the idea of no one seeing these pages (and I’ve written like 15 pages four days. Might be nothing compared to the fifty I used to churn out, but after a year of nothing, it’s a fabulous thing) drives me nuts so a beta might keep me going.
I also want to dig back into my original novel. I was very gung-ho about it after I was laid off but as usual it fell to the back burner. At the rate I’m going, the only published writing I’m going to do is the letter to Soap Opera Digest that got printed about Lucky and Elizabeth in 1998.
And that would be a shame.
Happy New Year I hope 2008 is a much better year for my family and my friends.
I spent the first hour of the new year arguing with Wordpress and Enthusiast. I’ve finally started to work on the Nora Roberts fan site and using Wordpress (I’m so obsessed with it, it’s sad) seemed like the best way to create the site quickly, efficiently and thoroughly. But of course, it’s never that easy. I had to do some creative work with Enthusiast, rename a function that I thought was supposed to fixed in the last upgrade, but eh. Enth is freaking fabulous otherwise, I’ll take what I can get.
It just struck me how thoroughly people have to design these scripts. In the three years I’ve been using Enthusiast, this was the first real script I’d had so I think that’s great kudos to Angela for designing it. I don’t know where I’d be without it.
I was watching another episode of 48 Hours Mystery on the Discovery Times Channel and I realized that I’ve got some weird television habits. My favorite channels are Discovery Times, History Channel, International History, and A&E. I love to watch all the true crime shows (and read the books) — and one of my absolute top ten television favorites is HBO’s Oz. Do you think that makes me just a bit twisted?
Anyway, I’m off to finagle with Wordpress a little more than head to bed. Happy New Year again
