Theme-itis
Published on June 14, 2015
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So, here I am, over 2 months into WA as Premium and have been reading posts, writing a few articles for my site, commenting and requesting comments, basically following the lesson plan and then setting up my theme, and setting up my theme, and banging my head against a brick wall.
Themes, it seems, are a bit of a nightmare. There are plugins to consider, creating categories for your menus, widgets and of course background and header images. So, I found some plugins to make life easier and then of course, for the extra styling, I delved into the wonderful world of altering code, CSS and PHP to get the positions correct and things where I wanted - or so I thought.
Result = Rubbish
I honestly believe that I was suffering from Live Website Anxiety Syndrome (not sure if it exists but it sure does in my head) and making changes to my site when I was writing articles etc. wasn't giving me that feelgood factor as it wasn't looking right - I mean, if I think it is looking a bit rubbish, who would want to visit?
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I started spending so much time trying different things that I wasn't writing and researching so things were coming to a standstill. I had bits of altered code here and there and started losing track of what I had done so that when I tried to revert back, my site went down and so the LWAS grew.
Then I found a solution.
I thought that if I could have a basic site and publish my articles etc. and develop my site on my computer, offline, I wouldn't suffer the anxiety, so I researched it and today I set it up. Within a few hours I have now managed to develop a theme with a new custom logo created in Photoshop (I learnt those bits today too) with code alterations courtesy of some Google searches and I am already starting to feel a lot better about things. I am also documenting everything that I do as it just seems easier when it doesn't feel Live.
I shall be writing some tutorials with screenshots so that I might in some way be of benefit to other sufferers of LWAS, although I need to wait another month before I have the necessary WA permission level.
As always - onwards and upwards fellow WA'ers
Martyn
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