Today I spent about 12 hours getting to grips with a number of technologies:
- codeigniter – a Model View Controller PHP development toolkit
- simplepie – a RSS feed reader
- artisteer – a page design tool that generates two sets of output such that the main web site and the WordPress blog have the same styling
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The outcome is that the main site has a ‘home’ and an ‘about the author’ page and a section that takes a RSS feed from the blog and displays the two most recent posts.
Over the weekend the focus will be on adding wordpress plugins, setting up Google Analytics, plus adding another half a dozen pages to the site.

