The new blog

Here it is!

I’ve recently been inspired by my wonderful husband to update my blog and I decided to go for it. Not everyone has a productivity, blogger, video making guru in their home but if they do they can’t help but to be swept into the passion and here I am.

I am really excited about the new format and the better layout.  Being naive and really optimistic I didn’t think it would be too tough, Torley makes it seem effortless, so off I went to pick out a cool new theme.

It wasn’t quite so simple, I also am leaving my blog provider Typepad, and while I had good service and never had a problem, for continuity sake and household conformity I went with WordPress moving forward. Back to browsing all the awesome wordpress themes, Smashing Magazine has some good lists compilations.

Something I learned from Torley was to not just pick one but to rather immerse myself into as many possibly WordPress Themes as I could. This way you get a good feel for what is standard fare, and what is good, and what is a sucky, WordPress theme. Torley also recently updated his blog and he has the coolest and I couldn’t copy his, well…..I bet he would of let me but I wanted something different so I kept diving in for hours looking at the themes and looking at examples of sites with the themes that interested me.

I think it was day 2 when I decided on a theme and we installed it. One thing I learned is important is to pick a theme that has easy customization, or “easier” or whatever that really means. The theme I picked was Revolution, oh, it’s snazzy for sure but when you first install it, it takes a bit to customize it to make it your own style. Of course I could of just transfered, applied, and kept on truckin but I definately wanted to add the Ravenelle touch to it, and logically how hard can it be to do that? hahaahhah ok so four days later I am grateful to my past experience with XML, HTML and background with making web pages during my career, although it has been over five years since I really touched much of that.

I kept at it fulltime for the past few days and here is the first version of my updated blog, I consider it to be a work in progress and ready for sharing with the world.

I look forward to growing from here. Sharing, exploring, creating and documenting it here for you to read.