I have been a big Tom Peters fan since his business management guru days of the 1980s and read his book, Re-imagine, twice before I started BPI Consulting 3 years ago.  I always loved how he would give away free stuff on his website for his audiences and the way his website was set up. Tonight, I visited tompeters.com to see what he’s been up to and what I see is a blog.  I love it. 

I also love Tom’s quote for today.  Thanks Tom, for reminding me to adapt to wordpress and forget frontpage.

What I DIDN’T want to do was to put myself in a position of having to manage multiple web platforms for one company.  I need ecommerce, I need to show a list of courses plus course content, and also a calendar of upcoming CE classes.  All the corporate stuff about what it is I do and who I am can be compressed.  What’s more important to me was to use the website as a way to interact with my customers.  If they want to know more, there will be links.

As much as I profess to know about blogging, I didn’t know as much as I thought I did about the back end of blog design.  For example, how do I upload a new theme?  I found a theme I liked with a very cool color combination, red and green.  However, it took me awhile to become familiar with my web hosting company’s cpanel function because I was so use to msfrontpage.  I uploaded the template and then I couldn’t get it extracted from the zip file. On the third try, it extracted. Then I couldn’t figure out how to get the template author’s selected images, which were quite salacious, to go away. I did make some attempts, but the wysiwyg editor of msfrontpage had spoiled me into not using my html training. 

I have selected another template, the one you’re now viewing. Next up, I must learn how to change the sidebar headings and create some new pages…while also organizing my office (out with the old, in with the new), going grocery shopping, doing laundry and vacuuming, and otherwise playing in what’s left of the snow with my daughters.  Although this blog won’t be ready for prime time until I can learn more about wordpress design, I am blogging about these initial steps in order to help others who are also migrating from traditional wysiwyg web editors to wordpress.