I’ve just been reading the sample chapter from Cory Doctorows Complete Idiots Guide to Publishing Science Fiction. One quote in particular jumped out at me:
“The formula for a successful career is very simple: first of all, write. Secondly, finish what you write. Lastly, send your writing to editors. The rest of it — critics, websites, [...]
After a reasonable portion of hacking around a pre-rolled theme I have it looking more or less how I want: more tweaking may follow on small things to make posts look right, but the main bits have been slapped around until they fit.
I think I went through 900 or so themes from wordpress, winding up [...]
Two evenings and a few too many hours in the daytime later, wordpress is setup skeleton-style and I have a pile of themes to sift through.
I’ve traditionally shied away from any website effort involving other peoples engines or templates: my first series of websites were hand coded in php / html / css, used my [...]