{"id":703,"date":"2007-09-11T00:13:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isabout.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/11\/starting-a-wordpress-blog\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:25:35","slug":"starting-a-wordpress-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arkenstonepublishing.net\/isabout\/2007\/09\/11\/starting-a-wordpress-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a WordPress blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I come to the wonderful, huge world of blogging with little in the way of experience. I don’t read many blogs (I think I listed the majority of them in my first post, actually) and I’ve never had a blog myself. I don’t even know if my temperament suits blogging, now that I think of it. Perhaps it will.<\/p>\n

The above in the way of context; it might be that my whiny complaint (this, I understand, is traditional: you’re supposed to whine like a rusty bedspring in your own blog) is just a result of my own lack of skill. For all I know, there’s some simple method to get WordPress to jump the way I want it to.<\/p>\n

With those qualifications, my whiny complaint: there seems to be precious few dynamic layout themes to choose from in the WordPress.com archive. And those that are available almost invariably lack a header image or do not allow changing it. The one exception, Rubric<\/em> (more or less the one shown here<\/a>) has awful red colored links and no way of changing them. This all is rather a shame, because I’d like to have a nice and distinctive header image, a dynamic layout and some control over color, too. I settled on the Garland<\/em> theme for now, I’ll have to think about what I’d like my window to the world to look like.<\/p>\n

Of course, the smart thing to do would be to put the blog on my own server. I could do that at the Arkenstone<\/a> URL, I guess. It’s just that I don’t want to entangle Arkenstone Publishing (this being a small Finnish hobby company I run with my brothers) with a personal blog that should be about many things Arkenstone has little to do with.<\/p>\n

Whine whine. I could also complain about how hard it is to find a good blog name and a subdomain that isn’t taken yet. Luckily I’m an inventive guy, so after going through around thirty game design-related choices, I stumbled on something acceptable.<\/p>\n

…hmm, such an useless post. This whining gig isn’t really doing it for me. Must be because we hadn’t even heard about “being emo” in my high school in the ’90s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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