One of the great things about Wordpress (the software now running this web site) is how you can completely change the way it looks. By playing around with the style sheet you can do everything from changing the fonts and colours to moving whole menus around. (Check out the Wordpress Theme Viewer to see what I mean.) It’s a bit like like decorating a house, only you don’t have to worry about paint drips or breaking your back moving the same piece of furniture a dozen times.
Unfortunately it involves playing around with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which I know practically nothing about. So I have two choices:
- learn how to do it all myself
- find a 12-year old kid who can do it for me.
I don’t know any 12-year-olds (even if I did, they’d probably still be on school holidays somewhere), and so I’ll have to learn to do it myself. The good news is I have a great book to learn from — “Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML” by Elisabeth and Eric Freeman, which I found out about on Kathy Sierra’s “Creating Passionate Users” blog. I’ve also run up WordPress on my own computer so I can do all my screwing up there instead of here. (It’s no coincidence that CSS also stands for Content Scrambling System.)