For Advanced Web Architecture this week we’re supposed to utilize some of the things Mr. Franklin (see last post) went over during his presentation. He used a personal server installation of Wordpress like I already have, so there’s one thing already that could count for this assignment.

We went over using different themes; I already have a large collection in my themes folder here and change mine fairly regularly. He covered widgets, which I already used to cover another assignment. The picture to the top right of my blog is an html widget for placing my own code, whether it’s an image with a link, a blurb about myself, etc. I also use widgets to display my archives, categories and links.

I am already acquainted with plugins as well. I use Akismet, a comment filtering system that collects spam in one folder and sends me emails when a real entry is made for my approval.

I’ve been playing with things like this for a long time, so not much of what he had to say about Wordpress was new to me. For this assignment, just to do something new, I played with a couple gallery plugins but didn’t really care for them. I would rather create my own gallery on a separate web page than in the blog.

I guess I’m just picky.