{"id":32,"date":"2023-11-30T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/naturenotes\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2023-12-01T04:51:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T04:51:42","slug":"on-my-website-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/naturenotes\/websites\/on-my-website-design\/","title":{"rendered":"On My (minimal) Website Design"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I began ‘doing web stuff’ in 1998, initially in relation to teaching. As I became more conversant with HTML etc. I found that hyperlinks and some well laid out navigation provided me with a way of assimilating a lot of the info I would like to hang on to that otherwise gets lost or forgotten or just can’t be found. WordPress, when it came along, made the coding,\u00a0 navigation and editing parts easy.<\/p>\n

My basic guide in creating a website is that it be ‘useful and EZ to use’ for me and then I figure it should work for others.<\/p>\n

I am not very imaginative when it comes to site design, but I do use images a lot to make a page attractive, break up text etc.<\/p>\n

I have put a lot of effort into design for only two websites, one in 1999 – Dalhousie Collection of Cacti and Other Succulents<\/a>. Aprile Scwartz, who provided a lot of the content had a lot to do with the colour combinations and overall layout.\u00a0 That site was all hand-coded.<\/p>\n

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In 2007<\/a>, I created a website for the Nova Scotia Wildflora Society<\/a>; design-wise, it was fairly similar to the cacti site, but I made use of a stylesheet\/template by Andreas Viklund.<\/p>\n

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Andreas Viklund template<\/p><\/div>\n

I first made use of WordPress in 2009, when I created a new website for the Halifax Field Naturalists. In that and all subsequent websites I made, I stuck with an Andreas Viklund stylesheet\/template<\/a> for WordPress that replicated the features on the earlier NS Wild Flora website; now that stylesheet\/template is maintained by WordPress as “Twenty Ten”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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