And now my web site has a new design.

That was an adventure.

First, I had to back up the whole site to my computer. That wasn’t too hard.

Second, to get WordPress running on my computer. Also, not too difficult.

But getting the blog working on my computer was another story. I didn’t have a child theme before so I didn’t even try that; I just created a new child theme for the new design. But all of the images were broken because they were saved in the database with the URL instead of the URI. I never did try to fix that.

I brought most of the “static” pages into the blog, but moving the whole blog to not be in the “blog” folder just broke everything. Oh well. I’ve set up forwarding from the old pages.

Setting up the menu and the widgets was easy, but had to be done manually on the live site how I set up the test site on my computer.

And finally, I had to figure out how to do my custom header. I created nine headers of three designs and want each to show up for the “static” pages, the blog, and the nitpicker. After a few mistakes, I got that working too. I was going to put in a random number generator, but for now I’ll leave it with each showing the same background. I can change it later.

And so, a new design. I’m happy with it. Stephen’s site was easier; I did that in a day. Mom’s will be next. I hope hers is easy like his was. And then to finish the JGIRC search engine. And deal with the UJGS member stuff.

And I have to remember to change the media file. I keep forgetting to hack that. Apparently, hacking the theme breaks the built in gallery….. There, better. Well, that left something a little wrong, but it’s close enough for me now. Web site update finished. On to other things.