Alex Shalman . com : Making of a Site

I, Alex Shalman am pleased to announce the grand opening of Alex Shalman . com – Practical Personal Development. Although the release has merely been a one month goal, the essence of what this site is to offer is a culmination of years of personal development and a strong desire to deliver value to you, my readers. The process of creating this site has been exciting, frustrating at times, but overall very rewarding.

The Making: an outline of what it took to make this site

Hosting – my host is 1and1, which have been reliable and very competitively priced.
Software – for all my coding/editing I stuck with Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Engine – the meat behind the blog is the WordPress blogging utility.
Guides -

Editing wordpress with dreamweaver guide by Max.

Official WordPress manual, The Codex.
The WordPress Chatroom on IRC.

Template – the wordpress template that I have edited to fit this site is Greening, by Mihalev.
Plugins – (subject to increase gradually)

Exec-PHP by James Van Lommel.
Share-This by Alex King
Sidebar Widgets
Clean Archives by Shawn Grimes
WP-ContactForm by Ryan Duff

That’s the start of it all. Of course, expect me to introduce miner tweaks to the site. Anything to offer more accessibility and ease of use. The main page describes more of what you can expect from this site in the future.

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