Webster Art

I’ve watched about 15 instructional videos from www.lynda.com on wordpress now and I’m starting to get a fuzzy grasp of wordpress.

It appears to be an online web page builder, that brings in, by default, the ability for my visitors to make comments. This has been one of my main complaints about my old school online journal, which I’ve kept since 1997.

My journal was not interactive, so my readers…all 3 of them :-), could not make comments, and it could not be seen on the internet, because it was locked down with password only access.

I’m coming up on some cool videos that will tell me how to host this wordpress blog on my own domain. I see this as a useful tool for our students. I’ve had several students figure wordpress out on their own, so any knowledge I can gather about it’s functionality will be all to the good.

Me painting the mountain

This is my first web page on word press. I’ve had my own website since 1997, but have never had an interactive one. I’m still learning which buttons to press. My plan is to make this a publicly accessible blog, since my current blog/journal is password protected. The reasons behind that are long and convoluted, but this new blog will be public, interactive, and searchable.

I created this self portrait by taking a photo of myself (thanks John!) and manipulating it in Photoshop for 10 hours using this book: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Photoshop-CS4-Illustration-Techniques/dp/024052134X Derek Lea is the first person I’ve found who explains high end photoshop artwork. Truly an amazingly talented digital artist.

Self Portrait in Photoshop