Development is going slower than I would like
Well, I've determined that Wordpress really does give me all the functionality I want for Running Duck Producktions… custom index page, flexible static pages, well formatted dynamic pages with nice urls, and all the good features like tags and trackbacks. The only thing I'm on my own for is my navigation list… it would require too much flexibility, but it's fine… I'll just be hand-coding it. The way I see it, I can't let Wordpress do all the work.
So I have the layout pretty much defined, though I'll be adding flare over the next couple weeks, and I have all the sections and the like sketched out on paper. If I had the time, I would implement everything, but in real life I'm a student and my school doesn't like to let its students have free time. I even have articles and stuff that I want to write, but haven't yet because this site isn't done, as well as projects and stuff that I haven't even had the time to start. -.-;;
I realized today that my desire to combine Georgia and Verdana (those are fonts, by the way) might have been unknowingly influenced by the redesign of A List Apart, which uses those exact fonts. Really though, I like Georgia and Verdana, and they do look good together. Besides, my title has Times. It's different.
So I have to admit, I like the (planned) look of this site. The polaroid up there is staying, and I have some icons that I really really like which I really really would like to put up. I'm afraid this site might not win any awards for appearance, but we'll see. I like the fact that it's a liquid layout, and to me it's more pleasing than the thousands of 800 px wide and 1024 px wide websites I see every day. Especially the 1024 px wide ones. I have a widescreen laptop. Fullscreen = 1280 px. Halfscreen = 640 px. Your fixed width site = never looks good on my screen. This liquid site = always looks good on my screen. 'Nuff said.
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