Category — Project: Home page

The home page / web site project for GregMaine.com has moved to deploy and maintain mode; you can check it out: www.GregMaine.com. As promised, it has been developed by tweaking a WordPress blogging theme design from a guy named Ed Merritt of the UK. Links and attribution to his other work are available at gregmaine.com.

An added feature of the new site is direct link to Sherry’s real estate site at SherylGregory.com; it will take some time, but a set of galleries are in development stage for posting to the “Image Gallery” page on the updated site.

Here is one of two header images I have built for the new web site:

There is nothing fancy in this artwork; this is the image captured by the camera (no filters or lighting adjustments applied). Text was added in separate layers per the GIMP software “text” tool and then all layers are merged into a final file.

We are working slowly at tweaking the blogJOG but have also decided on a radical change in direction for developing the GregMaine.Com home page. The blogJOG is “powered” by the open-source on-line publishing software known as Wordpress and we are slowly changing, enhancing, adjusting the pre-formated “delivered” theme (an open-source product from wpdesigner.com, see link in this page’s footer). This development work is satisfying the primary goals of these projects: (1) provide the GregMaine.Com IT dept. with experience and understanding of web-based technologies and the WordPress package, in particular, in preparation for supporting the coming credit union’s deployment of a modern web presence (as compared to the simple existence of today); (2) provide a web presence in support of the current and future communication and revenue needs; (3) provide a reason for the IT department to have their own laptop; and (4) provide the IT department, and blogGrok, specifically, with something to do in his chair while “American Idiots” is on.

So, consistent with these ways and means, we have decided to discontinue the use of the conventional web page design and development approach for the GregMaine.com home page (use of a simple web-page builder software and tweaking from there) and leverage our growing comfort-level with WordPress and use it to deploy the GregMaine.com home page as well.

So, in the next few weeks while we are waiting for our income tax refunds and the Economic Stimulus package: “lets-give-everybody-money-and-maybe-they-wont-complain-or-notice-we-are-running the-economic-future-of-the-country-into-the-ground” funds, we will offer you a new web site for GregMaine.com.