Website redesign!

ChrisMacvie.co.uk gets a fresh new look!

New website on its way! It’s certainly been a long time coming! The old chrismacvie.co.uk website was starting to look a little dated, it served its purpose well, but it was well overdue for an update!

Redeveloping in WordPress?

The last 12 months have been super busy with everything going on at work and at Duns Motocross. I was hoping to get dipped in Content Management Systems and Blogging to some extent, but the opportunity never came about. The sites I was building at that time had no requirement for CMS or Blogs.

Recently however that has all changed. I’m not sure exactly why, perhaps its the Social Networking trend that has encouraged people to start expressing themselves more. More status updates. More tweets. More to talk about and more to blog about. I guess this is why people in general have more interest in blogs and everything to do with them.  It made sense to get involved in the setting up and configuring of a blog site from scratch, especially if clients were requiring it too.

So, this website is my first real venture into the world of Blogs. Sure I have been involved in updating content in Content Management Systems before and I’ve certainly read blog or two, but I’ve never set one up until now. After reviewing the possibilities available to me (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress) I opted to go for the WordPress setup. It was a breeze to set up! I then needed a theme for my site and after spending a few days looking around the web I opted for this SilverSlide theme because it was exactly what I was looking for.

Better get back to setting things up. Whilst it took only minutes to install, the customizing and uploading of my existing data is taking many days!