I’ve been getting a bit bored with the look of my blog and have tried to alter a few things recently.
I tried switching the background colour to black, but all the hyperlink text came out a strange blue green and just didn’t work. I’ve checked other themes on WordPress but there’s nothing quite right! I’ve also altered the photos tab on the left with a grid of photos, rather than a slideshow, making it easier to scan all the images.
One of the better blog styles i’ve seen is the Slugs on the Refrigerator blog, with great fonts and image styles + with a much wider layout.
So, the next stage is to just get the CSS upgrade for WordPress, learn how to use the CSS programming then update and later my blog. There are some serious time constraints with that though, given how much else we have on, so i’m just going to have to put up with it for a while!
Anyway, i’m quite pleased with the home page right now and have just changed the header image to a recent bit of writing that Jamie did.
So far we haven’t been pushing the reading or writing with him, just reading a lot with him. He’s been getting the hang of words and sentences and keeps asking what various words mean etc.
But for the boys card to their Mum, I got him to trace over some dotted letters, to form his name. He did it really well and was really concentrating on it. I also suggested to him that writing was just like drawing, as it’s all based on symbols + you use a pen etc just like when he’s drawing! So I might do more of that with him to get him used to writing more.
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