Gareth Trufitt

Months of procrastination and deliberation have finally come to head with the launch of the Trufitt.com blog.

This has been in the pipeline for over a year now, iterations of designs and drafts of content littering my hard drive but working on other projects and agonising over the small details consequently prevented me from getting anywhere with it. I finally decided it was time to ignore the design and launch a bare(ish) blog to enable me to start creating content with the idea that this would push me to work on the design once I started getting some visitors. So here is my statement to you: I will design, code, and skin this blog with my own bare hands within a 4 month period. This will give me time to work on it while continuing to write and create compelling content at the same time. I think that’s fair?

That would make judgement day the 18th December 2009. Hey, so it will be a nice Christmas present for everyone!

The build and the blog

I will most likely use Elliot Jay Stocks’ ‘starkers’ theme:

Free of all style, presentational elements, and non-semantic markup, Starkers is the perfect ‘blank slate’ for your projects, as it’s a stripped-back version of the ‘Default’ theme that ships with WordPress.

This will enable me to have complete control of the design and mark up to create a beautiful, valid and standards based website that I can be truly proud of. This will also be a learning experience for me, helping to enhance and build upon my WordPress knowledge as well as my design, content writing, front end, back end and well, everything really. A blog really is an incredible way to build on so many skills.

The blog’s content is going to be a veritable mix of social media, WordPress, web Dev/design, inspiration and my thoughts and ideas. Anything that pops into my head to be honest. This will be my artist’s canvas, experiment lab and personal journal for myself and the community. It will be a document of where I have come from, where I am and where I want to be and will hopefully help me be recognised as a force to reckon with in our humble web industry.

This is where it begins, who knows where it will end?

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