Anjasaurus

Ruby ruby ruby

I’ve started building a site with the help of Ruby. I felt like learning something new, and to build something I could show. At first, I considered building yet another WordPress theme, but it’s getting boring. I know what I need to do, and I had no idea for a design.

So, instead I got some (a lot of) help from Bax to set up Ruby, Haml and Sass, and now I’ve started building a site with the help of them. Ruby creates the files and links them together, Haml provides the basic HTML structure for each page and Sass is a simpler way to write CSS-files.

So far, it’s just a basic white site with a few parapgraphs of text, but I hope to be able to put it live in a while. It will be my portfolio of some sort, I will collect things I’ve done and describe things I like. What it won’t be, is another blog :)

Every little thing makes a difference

I’ve started building my own WordPress theme. I’ve bought a domain and some hosting, and I will probably move this blog over there later. But first, I want to finish the theme so I have something personal, and neat-looking, to move it to. Templates made by others are great, but they aren’t mine :) Plus, I’m having quite fun while building the template.

The problem is to find a design I like. I know I love black, grey and purple, but I also love blue and green. I’m not great with art and such, so I will never be able to make one of those really flashy and beautiful themes. And I can’t decide what’s better, really beautiful or “homemade”. Since I’m not willing to spend a life time on learning to make it all flashy, I’m guessing it will be simple and homemade. If I don’t get it finished soon, I might cave in and pick a finished theme after all. I’m impatient, and the important part isn’t the personal look, but the text, the ability to write and publish stuff.

I can’t decide! I hate decisions! :P

Patience

Today I’ve been trying to learn how to build a WordPress template. Tried to read about the basics, it was a bit much so I thought I might start with building the css style file and refer it back to the default template and I could tweak the rest later. I really have no patience whatsoever, even fiddling with the css file bored me since I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. I don’t understand how I could ever learn anything, I don’t have the patience to spend time with it.

I’m going to learn. Sometime. I guess it will take a year or so. :P