Welcome to the new and improved Hummingbird604.com!
I had been talking about it for months. You had been waiting with baited breath. Everyone was wondering when it would happen. Well, it has happened now! Welcome to the new and improved Hummingbird604.com!
With the outstanding and very capable help of my friend J. Karen Parker, who did the customization of the theme, taught me how to do the FTP’ing and stuff, and helped me fix a number of issues with the self-hosted WP install (otherwise I would have been stuck in .htaccess hell!), I am now able to do way more than I could before (including CSS editing and theme customization, plugins, etc.)
As you may notice, the DevArt theme has been customized to better fit my blog. The hummingbird604 logo that Rebecca kindly customized for my previous theme remains instact. Luckily, this WP.org install allows me to use Javascript, plugins and do a number of things that I wanted to do but was unable to, for a long while.
Thanks a million to Karen for all her help, to everyone who encouraged me to go self-hosted and I hope you enjoy the new layout! Feedback, of course, is always appreciated.
Related posts:
- Redesigning Hummingbird604.com
- Which are your favorite WordPress plugins?
- Improvements to my site to increase the bi-directionality and conversation
- The CSS customization and going self-hosted “light”
- The move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org and self-hosting
Congrats!
Great! like the more sober look!
Like the new design – great colours.
The design is fabulous, and in my opinion, much better than the last.
Looks nice, Raul, but I hardly remember your last layout since I read your blog from my feed reader!!
Oh yeah, and self-hosted is the way forward. So much cool stuff you can do now. Let me know if you want any help with good plugins, etc.
You had to grow up and play with the big boys Raulie now that you have been nominated for best blog and all. It looks good! (and anyone that calls themself a geek should know how to FTP)
Looks great, Raul…congratulations!
Oooh – I like!
Wow Raul looks great! Great minds think alike eh? Finally self hosted! Happy for ya bud! Self-hosted is soo much better!
I like it. Simple yet elegant. Less is definitely more.
I’m *so* glad you have been able to personalize your space. Great job and best of luck in your self-hosted adventures
Looks great!
this looks wonderful! Enjoy!
Looks great and reads well. Good work.
This always takes longer to do than expected, huh?
Looks nice dude.
Congrats on the move. Somehow this theme makes me think of Tyler Ingram’s Photography blog. Clean and simple.
Looks fantastic, and even more importantly, it looks like YOU if you know what I mean.
Congrats on the successful move to self hosted!
Looks great Raul! Congratulations on your recent nominations and the new design. Ooh and finally self-hosted! Awesome.
So pretty!!!! Awesome job Raul!