Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

Setting up this site(anirudhsanjeev.org) was a breeze, even for a beginner like me. It came together effortlessly (assuming I’d painstakingly learnt how to install wordpress from knowing nothing at all in a few days). But I knew what was required: hosting and a domain name. So setting up another site after doing so many shouldn’t be hard right. That’s what I thought when I decided to set up a new site and do it right this time.

First I purchased the domain name, and got a 110mb.com account. I entered the namespaces and everything was going fine until when I had to enter the domain name. Something went wrong and the domain hosting was allocated, but the system failed before control was handed over to me.

So after requesting the 110mb admins for a while, on their crowded forums, I gave up and impatiently moved to old frihost.com hosting. They were good, and had a nice set of features but were slow. And for rendering a mammoth like k2, it would take around 25 seconds, so I had to install wp-cache. But again, deleting and restoring the cache whenever I make a change to the sidebar or to any aspect of the frontpage is annoying. I should find a suitable solution for that soon.

I have concluded this: The hardest, hardest hardest part of setting up a wordpress weblog is finding out what theme you want on it. There are just too too many to choose from and you cannot decide exactly what you’re looking for. You really can’t. I have seen almost every wp theme out there, and you just can’t find it.

I thought of making a theme myself, which eventually went down the drain and soon, switched over to try modding themes, and which followed suit mainly because I don’t like spending time in front of a computer and I am losing the patience to do stuff.

I have infinite patience, for those who aren’t aware of it. I can do nothing and sit with a blank expression on my face and keep my brain on idle mode for hours at an end. I can sit at an airport going six hours before my flight but can’t sit through an hour’s worth of a movie. And I’m deviating from the topic again. more on my funny patience level later.

Anyways, I decided to let pingpulse go on with simply a 3 column k2 theme and some clever marketing. Hey, I may not be a great web designer but I am clever, cunning and manipulative (maybe I shouldn’t have mentioned it on the internet, never know who’s reading this. Hi mom and dad!) but getting back to the point, pingpulse will be an interesting marketing experience.

One thing I realized is a nice catchy about text and an about page is quite nessacary which I will be working on right now, and I will be adding more to the about me section of my own website sometime soon.
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