[Ipg-smz] Building my TechManTalking website... finally...

[James Gaskin]

Personally I prefer the newspaperly look. Other than that, I'm not too far
ahead of you on the website CMS world.

Thanks,
James


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On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 6:36 PM Todd R. Weiss <toddrweiss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
>
> You have no idea how much your friendship, advice, support and humor are
> appreciated in my world all year round. I appreciate you all and am glad to
> know and work with you all.
>
> Well, maybe you do.  :)
>
> So as we all wind down to relax and enjoy Thanksgiving with friends and
> family, I wanted to ask for your opinions.
>
> For 10 years, since getting laid off from Computerworld in November 2008
> just before Thanksgiving (isn't that always the way it happens?) I've been
> planning to build my official TechManTalking website to highlight my work
> and build a resource for my business.
>
> I've been paying for the domain name on and off this whole time, lost it
> once to a scalper who luckily agreed to release it so I could have it back
> at a reasonable $14, and never seem to find the time to just do it.
>
> Today, with other deadlines loom ing, I realized it just has to get
> finished.
>
> So I set up an account with hosting vendor Bluehost, got my domain name
> back and started to look at Wordpress themes.
>
> I already have a headache,  :)
>
> Can anyone recommend a good book or site to help me with this? I am not a
> coder. I know the most elementary HTML, and I'll have to look it up because
> it's been a while.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how I will be able to link my stories from
> Channel Futures, eWEEK and other sites to my own site so people will be
> able to find them there and I can build up a repository.
>
> Here's the paid theme I am considering...
>
> https://demo.themegrill.com/colormag-pro-technology/
>
> Here's a free theme I'm looking at as well...
>
> https://superbthemes.com/demo/newspaperly/
>
> There's too many choices and it is overwhelming.
>
> I just want a nice, clean, easily readable site that lets me show off my
> stories from other sites, is easily or automatically updateable, has
> built-in SEO to help find and promote it and that lts me get started
> easily.
>
> If I start with a theme and learn it, can I switch it later when it all
> makes more sense to me or does this early decision lock me in forever?
>
> Now I remember why in 10 years I've never fininshed this project, but it
> is happening by the end of 2018.
>
> I need a beer and two Tylenol.    :)
>
> Thanks for any advice or sample sites you might share.
>
> Best wishes and have a great holiday,
>
> Todd  :)
>
> Todd R. Weiss
>
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