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Before I show you my new theme preview, let me say that yesterday’s post about being picky was *supposed* to be about not finding a new theme for this blog that totally fits my vision. I had intended to talk about being picky about my site design. Well, that didn’t happen. LOL

Anyway, although there are many themes I truly do like and wish I could use them all, there just isn’t one (that I’ve found, yet) that follows exactly what I see this blog as being. So, I thought since I’m a graphic designer - but not a web designer, technically - I would try to create my own. And I’m happy to say that coding with WordPress (the platform this blog uses) is fairly straight forward. Although, if any of you pro’s out there have any tips for me, I’m all ears!

The weekend was largely spent learning the basics of coding a theme with WordPress and yesterday I threw together the graphics vision. It’s not entirely finished yet and I don’t plan on having it live until next week at the earliest but I thought I’d give you a preview. I would greatly appreciate any feedback you have for me.

Please tell me what you think and again, if you know a thing or two about creating a WP theme from scratch, please do share any tips you have.

Have a great day!

In the arena,

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Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business - just as if it were her own.

Just a bit of deviation from my self-imposed blogging schedule today because I’m working on some behind the scenes stuff across a couple of my projects and I have a question regarding setting up a website on my home network. If anyone cares to take a stab at this, please do post in the comments.

Now, I’m slightly above a novice when it comes to setting up networks but I just can’t get this to work right. I’ve set up a website on my computer to share with my family across our home network, but it isn’t available for anyone but me. My husband and daughter both get the standard “page cannot be found” error messages when they try to access it. I’m using MAMP (a server program for Mac) and I’ve set everything up just exactly the way the documentation says to and still no luck.

Any ideas or suggestions from anyone out there?

Thanks!

Annie