New bloggy goodness, it’s a comin’ down the line

Jeremy’s Christmas gift to me this year was setting me up with my own domain name and hosting for my blog. While I could have just transferred my exact look over to the new site, I got rather excited about redoing my blog’s look. Since I’ll be redirecting traffic to the new site anways, why not take this opportunity to make it look just how I want it. (As an aside, I’m happy with the WordPress theme I’m using here, Black Letterhead by Ulysses Ronquilo, but I always chafe a little at using something that thousands of other people could be using too. I want to be original, dammit! I also want to lighten up the feel a little to reflect my writing style, and try my hand at designing my own mastheads.)

But I’ve quickly discovered that in order to customize my self-hosted blog on WordPress, I’ve got to geek out a little. So I’ve taken on the project of teaching myself enough html and css to do the job of making my blog look just like I want it to. And in the meantime, I’m not posting too much about food as I spend my evenings reading the tutorials at W3Schools and WordPress Wednesdays, designing mastheads on the Gimp, and experimenting with the coding of my new website.

Once I get the new site looking just right, I’ll be putting a link to it on this site. I’ve built up a decent referral base from google (people searching for mushroom gravy and Jamie Oliver’s salmon) and I’m hoping to transfer some of that love over to the new site.

In the meantime, if you’d like to follow my progress, and see just how SLOWLY I’m learning how to code, feel free to head on over to jannamo.com and have a look around. I’d love to hear any input or handy css tips you have to offer.