During the Easter holidays I was fortunate enough to take just two days off work in order to have the whole week.

Big thank you to Jesus, Will and Kate.

As no one else I knew (including my wife) was able to do the same I decided to devote this time to learning something new; wordpress theme design from scratch.

I had previously tried to alter existing templates, but these tend to be very bloated and complicated, taking ages just to strip back to the bare essentials.

After a good hour of searching I found this excellent tutorial, provided by Brian Wood on the Adobe Website. He provides a basic theme for you to begin with, which I ended up deleting all the way back to the bare PHP.

After around five hours of work I was able to launch the template this blog runs on. It turns out that WordPress is very good at aiding this creatvity; I was able to develop a custom menu through the dashboard of the admin space. I did however become very lazy with the sidebar, which are created by using three different out of the box text/html widgets.

My next job is to fix the 404 and archive pages, present my CV on the ‘About’ page, as well as add social media icons just below the menu bar on the right hand-side.