State of Learning Update

This week is a little about organization and a new WordPress Theme that is fairly new with some pretty impressive customization built-in and finally a blog that I think way overdoes the advertising.

I am really finding I need some organization to my learning, there is so much to learn I am bouncing around trying to tackle too much at one time. Between WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, Photoshop, JQuery, MooTools I am spread too thin. Don’t get me wrong, I love it. I enjoy the learning and the challenge of it all but I need to focus more in one area and make a list of priorities.

So, this upcoming week or so will be listing out my areas of focus and signing up for my next class over at O’Reilly School of Technology (one way for me to keep focused in one area is to take a class). I also want to make list of really good starting places to learn the basics. Since this blog is about my learning process into the web I thought I should list some good starting points above and beyond how I started out.

The new WordPress theme that looks interesting is Thesis Theme watch this video and it will show you some highlights of the theme. It looks interesting for somebody who doesn’t want to really learn a lot of CSS, HTML, and PHP. I think they are on to something with there more advanced customization controls, the theme cost $87 bucks for the lifetime. I am tempted to get it to just play as it might be a good learning tool…… going to think on that one for awhile.

Just a side note on good vs bad design, check out the blog of Lisa who did the video on the Thesis Theme. Lisa did a great job on the video but I think her blog/web site is an example of way too much advertising. I was brought into her web site by her video then by the name of her site, 2 create a web site, It has the look and feel of an infomercial. I clicked around looking for some good stuff to share with you but was incredibly put off with all the ads. The feel is that it’s more about making money than it is the quality of the content. The feel of her site drove me away not deeper into her site. I would think that great content brings more visitors which brings increased advertising rates. Just my opinion.

Have a great week and start learning something new!

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