Back in business! It’s been a very eventful April for me – on the 4th, I was notified that I was approved for SS disability, a HUGE relief. I am getting ready to move soon, and busy packing things and looking at furniture, but tomorrow I am going to the Mac store in Portland and purchasing a brand new iMac! I cannot wait, this is my heart’s desire!

In a couple of days I should be back on track. I am going to finish the next WordPress theme before I finish BK2K Web Design – I’ll probably submit it to WordPress.org on Friday, and you should be able to download it the following week.

Until then…

A couple of days ago, I created a kind of “chapter outline” of BK2K Web Design to map out the static pages that the site will have. After I did my outline, I created the pages and put in my meta titles and descriptions. These can and will be tweaked, but I’ve added what I’ve got to the outline.

When you’re done creating your outline, and adding the titles and descriptions, you’ve got the basis for a perfect list site map. Not the same as your Google XML site map, this is for your users’ benefits, although search engine bots may very well  find your site map page to be very tasty! Here is my basic outline, with links and descriptions added:

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Ideally, I would have all my content written and organized before I coded a site, but I wanted to finish the BK2K Web Design theme so I can finish the Scrumptious theme. I’ll work on that and the content for BK2K over the next couple of weeks, giving myself a little variety. I love coding – but I really don’t like writing. It’s hard to get inspired! So I’m going “back to school” and treating it like a homework assignment. I’m starting by creating an outline.

1. Home
2. About
   1. About BK2K
   2. About Me
   3. About this Site
3. Learn
   1. Online Schools
   2. Video Tutorials
   3. Tutorials
4. Tools
   1. Hardware
   2. Software
5. Jobs

That was easy enough! Tomorrow, I’ll decide what the title and meta description tags for the pages will be, keeping SEO, and which keywords I want to target in mind.

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I’ve been putting it off forever, but have decided to reopen my old business site, BK2K Web Design, as an online web jobs, web development, technology news sort of blog. Right now it’s kind of just sitting there with a little index page, and I miss it! So the Scrumptious theme has been temporarily sidetracked while I finish up the loose ends (including writing a slew of static pages, ugh.)

Here’s a screenshot of the new theme for BK2K (click for full sized):

I’ll do my best to finish this up soon, and get back on track with Scrumptious, which will be coming by the end of the month. Stay tuned…

I’ve decided to handle all support for Rose City Gardens’ WordPress themes in their individual forums, and close the comments for the initial release announcements. I hate to stifle discussion, but it’s getting a bit overwhelming keeping up with comments, email and the forum. While you will have to sign up to post, I swear before all that is holy I will never, EVER, spam you or give your address to spammers.

While I’ll be around for a few years yet, I have a bad liver problem and that means that my energy level is pretty limited. Sometimes I have to leave things for a day or two and catch up when I’m feeling better. I am so sorry to let down the wonderful users who like and download my themes. Be assured that I will be making WordPress themes as long as I can use a keyboard. Whether or not they will be usable is an entirely different story!

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