Monthly Archive for April, 2006

Movin’ on Up!

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Mark
on April 30, 2006
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Congratulations! You found the new home of WomoPage.

I bought me a domain name (womopage.net) and got me a web host (DreamHost) and set me up shop away from the vulgar world of Blogger with the elegant aid of WordPress. One great advantage of WordPress is that it allows me to categorize posts, making them more easy for my hoards of eager fans to find. (See the Archives tab above.)

By the way, I highly recommend both WordPress and DreamHost, DreamHost especially. If you’re in the market for a web host, I recommend them most highly. And if you do sign up with them, please list my e-mail (mwomack@mac.com) as your referral. I get a small commission that way!

I’ve had a time of it modifying my new layout to match the one I just created for Blogger, but I’ve got it pretty close now. Turns out the blogger template I used was a ripoff of a WordPress template called K2. (The template originally looked something like this; so you can see I’ve done a fair bit of modifying.) At least I didn’t have to start from scratch, thank goodness. Still, there’s been a lot of eye-straining editing of code. More tweaking will occur over the comming weeks, no doubt, so be patient.

Now if I can just pour as much effort into maintaining this blog as I’ve spent setting it up.

The Grand Redesign!

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Mark
on April 29, 2006
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Welcome to the new and improved WomoPage.

I started this blog two years ago as a movie-review site, but didn’t make much of a go of it.

Well now I’m back with a snazzy new design. I used a layout from Blogger Templates as my new template. (It’s called K1, if you’re curious.)

I’ve tweaked the template a little and am tweaking it still. Since I know very little about html coding, this involves lots of trial and error. So be patient if things are a little wonky for a while.

I wanted a clean, elegant look, and to that end I’ve tried to make the links as unobtrusive as possible. I find it very distracting to read through a blog post full of multi-color words. My discreet links underline when you hover over them, but are other-wise inconspicuous.

The biggest design change is the spiffy new “WomoPage” masthead. I created it with a freeware image editor called Gimp.

I’m going to try to post at least once a week. I’ll still give lots of movie reviews, I imagine, because I watch so many films. But I’ll also post some other stuff as well. My readers (if any) can make requests or suggestions of course.

Let’s hope this goes better, or at least longer, than last time.