I didn’t realize how involved updating the current installation of WP 2.6 would be. For those of you that don’t know, here is what WordPress is:
“WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.”
You see, the Newborn Apple blog doesn’t just come pre-packaged like this. It’s based on WordPress templates and scripts that need to be implemented into a web server. In order for the website and all it’s cool plugins and blogging capabilities to work someone has to create the backend (this is all the PHP, AJAX, JAVAscript, etc) coding that makes it all run in the server. I don’t write code. I do more frontend (CSS, HTML etc) design. There is still a huge learning curve for getting all these scripts to work together to create a site. Sometimes missing tags that look like this: (“, or <, or :, or #) can screw everything up. I learned that yesterday as I was trying to upgrade to WordPress 2.7.
I know this is all just meaningless to everyone that currently reads the site. I mean, we’re a t-shirt company not a web-design one, but I think it comes with understanding the business fully. Luckily I can understand enough and am willing to spend countless hours reading help forums in order to make everything run nicely. There’s still a lot to be done, but that will come with time. Things look good for now.
Later,
GREEDY
Newborn Apple™
