The Journey – Website Re-development

The task of re-building the OS Wayfarer website has begun in earnest. In the past it had been used for a different purpose and was built using Joomla!. So I started the redevelopment using Joomla! but I had some difficulties: first it was sometime since I had used it and so I had forgotten what little I had learnt; secondly, Joomla! has recently been upgraded and so all the modules were still being upgraded; and I had to increasingly annoy my son every time I needed to get something done. So I decided to change platforms. It was unfortunate, as Joomla! is quite powerful but only usable by the committed.

So I turned to WordPress.  At first I installed WordPress using Fantastico on my host server’s cPanel. This installed version 3.1 and I had a lot of trouble with memory errors. In the end I manually upgraded to version 3.2.1 which wasn’t that difficult – I just followed their guidelines. I initially used the Twenty Eleven 1.2 Theme but found it quite restrictive after having the flexibility of Joomla!.  So I searched the WordPress themes and settled on the Clear Line 1.0.7 theme.

This theme has a lot of options hence flexibility. So I am working with this theme for the moment. I’ll see how it goes.