As written a few days ago I’m thinking of turning a website I’ve done into a blog.

I finished off the last instalment with how easy it was to install WordPress and that I’m very impressed with the WordPress documentation. That was before I started the configuration.

I find myself going round in circles with it.

I’ve managed to install another theme. That’s easy. Anything that has to be installed is easy but trying to do anything else more manually isn’t easy for me yet.

There is loads of documentation, but I haven’t yet come across the type of documentation I’m looking for and that’s probably because there is so much out there that wading through it all is the trouble.

I’ve created some categories and I want to change the order of the categories. I found out how to do that I thought and went and did it but nothing’s happened on the website.

I started putting the About page together and then realised that inserting an image wasn’t so easy. The website I’m converting is very image heavy so after some reading I’ve had to install yet another plug-in to add images. There are loads of image type plug-ins so it will be trial and error.

I’m about to spend some more time on it now so hopefully things will start to fall into place.

I’m largely responsible for the safarisuit website and I don’t update it very often as it’s a pain in the ass to do. I have to do it home for a start and use FTP to upload changed pages. I’ve almost sub-consciously started a blog type format for it where I put latest news type items on the homepage and archive off the older ones.

Being a lover of blogging I thought why not convert it into a blog. I initially thought of getting another Typepad account and using that like I do for this blog but I thought the safari suit host must provide a blogging facility. They don’t as such, but they do have the minimum requirements for me to install WordPress.

So as I’m writing this I’m uploading WordPress files to my webspace on my dialup connection. An aside, I told a friend recently that I’ve done all of the safari suit website via my dialup connection and he was astounded. Unless I start making megabucks or doing more work from home I can’t yet justify getting broadband. So dialup it is. While it’s damned slow it gets there in the end.

I haven’t completely worked out how I’m going to transfer what’s already on the safari suit website to a blog type format but I think it will eventually work out. I’m optimistic if nothing else. Right, the files have finished uploading.

Not even five minutes later

WordPress is all installed on my website. Too easy! There’s no content there as yet.

As someone who is normally very frustrated at the crap level of documentation for just about everything I am very impressed with the documentation on the WordPress site. 

Now for some configuration.