A nice Break

18. April 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Harry Potter, Runnimede, Windsor · Tags: , ,

It’s been a little while since myself and MrsB headed away on our own for a few days so for a little celebration we took ourselve off to the ‘Smoke’, well to be more precise Windsor, to the west of London. What a nice couple of days we had. We wandered around the old building that dominates the town of Windsor, apparently it’s owner was away for a few days too! We also had a little trip down the river which was very pleasent.

Now, if like me you associate London and the South East as ‘all houses, cars and people’ I think you to would have been pleasently surprised at Runnymede. There were still pleanty of cars, people and houses but not quite as many as just a few minutes away, in fact you could have been mistaken into thinking you were in rural England, but not for long. However, if you ever get the chance to visit the seat of democracy it’s a lovely spot, even in the rain.

After leaving Runnymede we headed to the Warner Brothers Studio tour – Wow, it’s impressive and if you have any Harry Potter fans in your midst it’s a must see visit – great little birthday present.

WordPress – My experience so far

13. April 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Wordpress · Tags:

About a week ago I took the plunge and decided to update my ageing website. The old site was ASP based. So, what should I use to produce my update? Notepad seemed a bit too basic and my design skills are, at best, limited so what should I use?

I had heard of wordpress but knew nothing about it and a quick search soon revealed lots of hits for wordpress, along with other systems, but wordpress seemed to get good reviews, is free and is open source – so WordPress it was.

Now, I know next to nothing of PHP, perl, MySQL… And, although installation turned out to be simple, working out where best to put it seemed, initially, very difficult. A quick e-mail to my ISP answered my questions and less than 3hrs later I had the fist inklings of a new website up and running.

I’m no HTML guru, but I do understand some of the basics, but what I found hardest was getting to grips with the terminology and lack of HTML. Eventually I found suitable templates for my envisioned design and after plenty of trial and error, actaully very little error but lot’s of trial I got my first WordPress site ready to release – and boy am I happy with it!

So, it was a 5 minute install, once I worked out where to put it. I then had to move it about, which turned out to be easy and I also decided to re-name the MySQL DB which proved simple enough to do.

I’m a very long way off from being a wordpress expert and I now need to get into the world of PHP and properly start to understand the CSS world, but after less than a week of WordPress I do feel I have a reasonable grounding and a good place to start from.

Oh, and a place for a blog!!

Do I really need a blog?

12. April 2012 · 2 comments · Categories: Blog, Wordpress

Been working on setting up a new Beanari and it’s got all the frills, bells and whistles of a full blown site, all done with WordPress and after only a few hours of playing, so quite impressive. But am I really likely to make regular posts? I doubt it, I barely post anything on my facebook account!