Movin' On Ups?

Ok, i know its been just about forever since I wrote in this thing...what can I say, crap happens. Anyway, I'm trying my hand at advancing my blogging life by upgrading to WordPress...and as you can see from my new site..DjD..its not going to well. Who knew you needed a masters degree just to work a website? I know I didn't.

So what have I learned so far after spending the last 3 hours trying to set up the site, you ask? Well, it's good you brought it up...I have learned that wordpress is for the lazy website designer in you...if you read the Webpage Design Cookbook then Wordpress would be a breeze for you...I suppose if you went ever further back to FrontPage, then you'd be just laughing your way through WordPress. Well, there's not much laughter for me now. WordPress is freakin' difficult. Guess who is about to make BlogSpot work...that's right...ME.

Step One: Change the focus of the blog or start a whole new one.

Step Two: Learn how to write like a blogger or find a voice for Step One and stick with it.

Step Three: Links, links and more links. The blogsperts (that's right, I combined "blog" and "experts", take that), say that you don't have to know everything about everything because more than likely someone else has already written something much longer and way more intelligent than you on your current topic...so stick with the the right and left jabs and send them off to those who know the most. Or at least more than you seem to.

Step Four: Pics. If I'm going to add pictures to go with the words, I'm going to have to stick to one or two. No more six or seven shots to tell the story for me...that only makes it more frustrating with the photos don't line up properly or are not at a uniform size.

Step Five: Like-minded Humans. Unless I somehow think of the one topic that no one else has to written about...unlikely to say the least...I'm going to have to find others like me and read up their blogs to keep myself in the know. Of course I will be doing this without bitin'...and there is the challenge of Step Five.

Step Six: Door #3. I'm keeping that from this blog if I end up starting a new one...for me its cool to have some randomness built into the post. If I got something out of the site, maybe someone else will too...

So there it is...

And now, Door #3:

Fixed Gear Gallery

I just bought a proper road bike for riding around San Francisco...a Fuji track bite. My friends, who already ride "fixes" schooled me on the basics...and even though i got a freewheel for now, I know I will be riding my track fixed pretty soon...it's a pretty addictive way to ride a bike.

So this site is all about the fixed gear goodness...lots of images of peoples creations and inspirations for days...

enjoy,

DjD