Pamela is an emerging artist, who is process driven with an experimental approach which creates unforeseen and interesting results.

Her experience is within the built environment having studied Architectural Engineering, she then continued to work as a design engineer within this field whilst establishing herself as a fine artist.

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Announcing a new Wordpress site for Dance Movement Psychotherapist Jacqueline Butler. Using stylised Wordpress themes is an affordable and quick way to get your site up and running.

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Check out Brian Gallagher’s new blog which I’ve created in Wordpress:

www.bdgart.com/blog

Some great illustrations and worth subscribing to.

In cooperation with the Conrad Davies Company I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Harrogate International Festivals new website.

HIF, who had previously being using Adobe Contribute, wanted an easier admin system and we decided Wordpress was the way forward. Based on Conrad’s branding the site spans three areas – the HIF main portal, the Summer Music Festival and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.

Too overpowering therefore we are sampling ‘fspring’. Cleaner.

It’s based on a great theme by FTL Wordpress Themes which I discovered at Smashing Magazine called ‘Color paper’. I’ve oxidised it into the present scrap yard you see before you. Reading FTL’s website I’m left somewhat confused. They offer a great selection of top themes all which are free, yet something is puzzling me – their website states: ‘If you would like to purchase a theme for complete rights, please contact us. Themes are priced at $4,000 each.’  Eh? What’s all that aboot? >emails FTL to discover the truth<…

More to the point – how many people want to understand it?

There are in fact millions of people who understand it (hmm, actually my code cells understand a tidgy bit of it) and they have created millions of Wordpress themes all waiting to be used and abused. Do a search for ‘free wordpress themes’ and you’ll understand. So what was my next step? It was to find the most easily manipulatable theme out there. So far the prize goes to Atahualpa. This theme has so many options you can transform it into a cart load of mexican chihuahuas.

The result is the work in progress – a website for ShavenRaspberry.com – and the underlying theme is unrecognisable. But since the original theme is open source and free to use I will leave the creator Flynn’s credit at the bottom. Clever chap that Flynn.

But more important than that – it didn’t handle static pages (i.e. pages not part of a blog). So as a full CMS solution it really didn’t hit the naughty buttons.

So how come nobody told me about Version 1.5

WordPress 1.5 was released on 17 February 2005. It added a range of new vital features. One such is being able to manage static pages. This allows content pages to be created and managed outside the normal blog chronology and has been the first step away from being simple blog management software to becoming a full content management system. Another is the new template/theme system, which allows users to easily activate and deactivate “skins” for their sites.

And so what you are witnessing here is a burst of enthusiasm not experienced since the day my Apple Classic II was delivered.

Hang on I hear you say  – what the hell are you talking about? Fear not, I understand. It’s quite simple – Wordpress is this.