One day another website

Inspired by the quick success of mountainchiropractic.ca I decided to build another site in under a day. I’ve also been meaning to get back in shape and lose some weight. So I combined the two. I think when you are exercising it helps to track things in a diary, or a log, or in this case a blog.

So, I started One Fat Man - a journey back to fitness. I got home from work about 4:30PM, had a snack, did a trainer ride on my bike. It was my second official day or exercising and I figured I need to keep track of what I was doing, and set some goals to be motivated towards. I used to do this in a notebook, or some software diary, or even a spreadsheet. Now I figured why not a blog. Even better, I’ll share it with my friends and maybe the peer pressure will motivate me some more. So that was it. I was set, I’d keep a blog instead of a training log. But I didn’t want to spend a heap of time working on it. So, keep it simple, make it fast was the goal.

• Started around 8PM
• Installed another instance of wordpress on my dev server, using fantastico. My dev account had reached its max allowable mysql databases. Had to go to WHM and configure a new DB quota for the account. ~ about 15min
• Entered my first training log post, and deleted the default WP stuff. ~ about 5 min
• Wrote my About page. ~ 20min
• Went trolling for interesting WP themes. Got lucky and found one I liked fast. Installed it. ~ about 15min
• Futzed with the CSS to get the colors and layout the way I liked. ~ about 1.5hr
• Installed or configured some plugins, like Akismet and bdp-comments. ~ about 10mins
• That was it I was pretty much done in just over 2.5 hrs. But I futzed around reading it and went to bed at 11PM.

On the second day. I did my work out, and then posted my daily entry. I started to futz with the CSS a bit more, found some images of cartman I liked. Had an email from a friend who said I needed pictures, so I looked for some new flickr/WP plugins. I like Falbum which I use here, but its a bit of work to get installed and running the way you want. Instead I found crossroads. A really neat little plugin that lets you use Highslide another neat Javascript viewer. Maybe another 1.5 hrs and I was really truly done. Now I’m just loading it up with content. I might tinker here and there but that’s it. I’ll likely get post-by-email working so I can update from the road when I travel.

I’ll move a lot of personal blog posts of this blog now and do that over there at One Fat Man.