Remember when I posted a few months back about how I completely and utterly made a mess of my blog trying to customise a new theme? If I remember rightly (and I guess I could read the post to find out), I solemnly swore never to muck around with customising the theme again. Actually now that I think about it, I wasn’t going to play with the theme ever again. I broke that promise well and truly when I changed to the current theme but as it was not customising it, I felt that was a fair enough deal.

Over much of the past year, I’ve had another idea for a blog in my head and while it sounded pretty good in theory, I never got around to putting it into practice. It got shelved along with a few other hopes and dreams which turned out to be not to practical when I thought about implementing them. All the while though, it has been mulling around in the back of my head.

The new tax year arrived and with it, a desire to actually start this new blog which I delved into the planning stages of with a lot of gusto. That is, until the ATO took forever to process my ABN registration because for some bizarre reason, you really need one for a .com.au domain. It got shelved again in the back of my mind for the month or so they took to process my application. But it’s finally happening. I bought the domain last week, it’s now registered. I have hosting for it (thank you again Leigh!), Wordpress is loaded and I have a really good theme to use.

And get this, it’s fully customisable! OH NO! I can hear you shrieking from here after the last misadventure down that road. But this time, it’s all hunky dory….that is once I was duly chastised for failing to remove spaces in my header image names. Despite all the headaches involved with getting it up and running, I’m really starting to enjoy the whole thing. Like giving myself a panic attack when I thought I’d deleted the whole server directory. Or swearing at my PC for hours on end because I could not get the headers to display in Firefox yet they were happy to do so in Internet Explorer. I’m sorry, I just couldn’t bring myself to type “this webpage is best viewed in IE 7.0 or above” - the very thought of it makes bile rise in my throat because I really hate IE. Thankfully the problem has been rectified and I’m on the right track at last. At least I can laugh at my own stupidity, put it all down to a learning experience and keep moving forward.

My other half has asked me to set up his own blog on our local server. Do you think he knows what he’s in for?

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