Kinesis marketing and design blog

Well the Kinetic Diary is on it’s feet and ready to be filled with Kinetic ideas.

I was thinking, what should my first post be about? What would get this thing rolling along nicely? Being the Kinesis web designer/programmer I thought of projects I’ve completed, cool design sites out on the web, and any design/program tricks I’ve come up with along the way. Now don’t worry, those things will be coming in the future, but I thought I’d start with something even more basic, this blog itself.

The blogging world isn’t some subject I could cover in a single rambling post, so I’ll keep it simple. I’ll focus on what your looking at, a theme.

So, we’ve decided to start a blog, have created the layout and now it’s time to make it a functioning blog. Well, with the number of blogs out there (wikipedia puts it at about 106 million!) there are a multitude of ways to make your own blog, we chose one option.

So this blog is running on wordpress, one of the multiple content management systems available so you don’t have to re-invent the wheel when you decide to start a blog. The best part in my opinion? Wordpress Themes.

A theme is the visual faceplate of your blog. There’s thousands of themes available on the web designed for wordpress, but to me, they never quite match up to a truly custom theme. A custom theme makes the blog unique, it makes it personal, and it reflects who we (or you) are. Yeah, you’re reading this for the content, but would it really be as interesting if it was surrounded by an ugly blog?

How it’s actually made? that’s another long story, filled with PHP, CSS, XHTML and the wordpress structure and template tags, maybe something I’ll touch on in the future, you’ll have to come back and see.

Thanks for reading,
~Jade

Kinesis Web Designer