I’ve taken some time to learn a little bit about “the Loop” in WordPress and setup a page specific to my latest blog entries. Now I can keep the front page of my site to list only the news posts. I’ll finish adjusting the code and layout as I work on my website’s template.

It’s setup to use the same URL that my blog was setup to use ages ago:
http://www.elorg.net/journal/

Between school work and random house chores like weeding the garden (not to mention the day job) I’ve been getting an offline development instance of my website setup. I have the VM guest finally configured and ready, the database imported, and the files copied over. Now to just tweak the settings a little so that it will run locally and not think that it’s running on the live web server!

I don’t know how much longer I can take these “default” templates. hahaha

My site will most likely remain pretty ugly for a while. I’m focusing on getting everything actually working the way that I want it to first. Then I’ll come back and focus on customizing the layout and elorg-ifying it.

I’ve setup a login form on the home page. I kind of hacked it together, but it works. At least it contains the links to your WordPress & Vanilla profiles, as well as the forum for now. I’ll work on cleaning it up and setting some conditions when I have time.

I really need to setup my site to display excerpts of my posts instead of the entire thing…