Ryder Duncan’s World is officially online!
This is the first post in my new blog. While this post itself won’t be winning any Pulitzer prizes in the near future, it does signify that I have conquered foes (both endowed and UNIX) and have emerged victorious. The most agonizing part was waiting for the new domain name to finally be registered with the host, which took hours. In the mean time, I planned my attack. I had to come up with a way of linking from the main site to this WordPress blog, as well as an obvious way to return to the site proper. I had a crude enough idea how to accomplish the former, but the latter concerned me for a little while. When I finally got to work, it took me about an hour to get it all set up. I simply hacked the PHP and CSS files with some simple HTML, and it worked like a charm.
The only drawback is that I’ll have to manually replace the modified Home page every time I want to edit the site proper. But that’s no big deal, really. I’ll just keep a copy on tap locally, fire up FileZilla, and get on with my business.
So, what am I going to do with this site and this blog? I have no clue; it just seemed like a really cool idea, and I had the web space lying around collecting digital dust, so I figured why not? I had originally seen an article on PCWorld about a “do-it-yerself” WordPress blog, and I decided to launch a whole new website along with my new blog. Some of the possible uses include reviewing music equipment/software, as well as music itself. A personal outlet for the thoughts of the day is a must, as is a section devoted to slamming Internet folly. More than that, though; I can use this site as a playground for my budding (read: nonexistent) coding skills.
I think that’s enough for the first post. It’s not like I have an audience yet.
