So I got wordpress installed late last night, posted a first blog this morning and assumed I had found the easy-as-pie solution to get this new site up without having to do any work.

So much for that.

Firstly I didn’t want to take too much time familiarizing myself with the template system, so I looked around for a theme that was close to what I wanted, and found a few potential layouts. But I just didn’t see anything I REALLY liked.

After 30 minutes or so I said ‘fuck it’ and decided to start dissecting a theme that at least had a sepration in menus for pages and blogs.

SIX hours later I have some fancy stuff in the top menu and my header and footer templates are pretty much completely rewritten. And I haven’t even gotten into the individual pages yet.

I guess the moral is, there is no such thing as an easy way out when it comes to designing a site yourself.