The new website is launched and hopefully fully functional. I’ll detail the entire process including the WordPress plug-ins used, for you bloggers out there. We would really appreciate some feedback on the design so please leave them in the comments.

This is my first WordPress theme design and it took a bit of getting used to - as I’m used to starting the design of web pages from scratch. Digging around in someone else’s code is infuriating and satisfying, in equal measures. I’ve definitely learnt plenty of things about the systems used to display blogs, which will be invaluable for designing clients’ blogs in the future.

For anyone who uses WordPress we used the following plugins for this blog:

Author Image(s) by Scott Reilly

Tiger Style Administration by Steve Smith

The second one is a visual alteration to the WordPress backend and doesn’t effect what you’re seeing at all.

Anyway, posts will be a little thin for a while as I continue to setup the rest of the site.