All About Kimberly

I’m really excited to announce my new domain. I hope that those of you that have followed my other blog (ChattyWomen) will follow me here. I have to admit to being a techno-geek and being really interested in the adminstrative and background stuff behind our blog so in order to find out how all that works, I made a decision last week that since I already owned web hosting space, that I would buy an additional domain and play with the background/administrative stuff.

The hardest part for me was coming up with a domain name to register. What did I use? I wanted something easy for friends and family to use, and I wanted something that would be applicable to my life for the longterm (not something I would outgrow and thus let fall to the side). Then when I came up with this name, I just knew it would be taken. It was so simple, and my name is so common…what were the chances? I felt doomed as I typed it in and almost fell out when it showed up as an option. I locked it in fast before someone else thought of it.

The next step was installing wordpress and that was super easy. (Thank you wordpress for an installation that I completed in 30 minutes.) After installation though came another difficult part for me – picking out a theme. What did I want my blog to look like? I looked and no telling how many and installed 7 different themes before I settled on this one. Then it still wasn’t quite what I wanted so I went out looking for help in a redesign. I think though that I am now happy with the look. Finally came the data (both the posts and the two outer columns). I imported several of my old posts so I could see what this would look like with ‘real data.’ I’ve played with the plugins and such, and I think I now have a blog I’m content with. (Still a few things I want to tweak, but the overall look I think I’ve settled on)

What do you think of my selections? Do you see anything that looks out of place? Anything missing? I would love to have your advice.