Rodent Regatta

Take a new document in Notepad and begin to add a DOCTYPE and some XHTML and build a stylesheet. It’s pretty clear to me how those pieces fit together.

Throw in a content management system with templates and tags and things get a bit more challenging. Learning how tags nest inside each other and markup is not immediately obvious. Understanding the role of various templates in rendering a home page is also a puzzle.

I’ve seen a list or two of the new templates for the Blogger redesign. I haven’t yet found a list of templates for WordPress. I’m sure they exist.

• * * UPDATE * * * In the comments to this entry, Alex King points to one of his own pages which lists a lot of templates for WordPress. Experimentation to begin soon.