And so it begins…

Well – it seems this blogging business is not as hard as I thought it would be. I’ve managed to install and configure WordPress this morning without too much hassle, and I even got this fancy theme on the web and managed to edit it to suit my needs. Not everything is in place yet of course, but as a starting point I’m quite happy with it. The purpose of this entry is to a) mark the occasion and b) see what the sodding thing looks like when I post text to it.

Considering I just launched Avalon5.com yesterday evening, I’m sort of amazed at how quickly I managed to get a blog script / solution integrated into the site. I’ve no doubt that I’ll spend a few hours over the coming evenings customising and playing with this area of the site until it’s right, but for now it was pretty painless with the following exceptions:-

• Permissions problem with templates.php – still need to track that one down.
• Enable Referrers – I had to update my browser and firewall settings to allow this through before the blog would allow me to update the themes section
• Themes – Pretty straight forward to find, upload but the customisation might take me a bit of sweat!