Noemi Millman: Triopter: September, 2006 Archives

I planned to document the process of setting up this site, so here’s the first installment.

Wordpress’s famous “five-minute installation” is great. In fact, a lot of web hosts even have a “one-click” installation process available that takes even less time and doesn’t even require you to find out things like your database login.

And a default Wordpress installation is very useful, and very close to ready to use. Its defaults for posting, commenting, and everything are very useful.

But there are always a few things I like to change. There are the obvious, such as setting up a tagline, …

Now that I’ve moved this domain from its old host, which was hacked, and then unresponsive, and in general not very satisfactory, it’s time to actually make something of it.

I was going to apply a design that I’ve been working on, but then I realized that the logo I was working with bore an uncanny resemblance to the Adidas logo, and that I’d better start over. Oops.

So this is a completely fresh start, …