For you tech curious: This website is built using WordPress. I began building html websites in 1998-99 and then began building on the WordPress platform in 2010. Today WordPress is by far the most popular platform in the world.
This site uses the TwentySeventeen Theme. It’s my favorite theme, as well as one of the coolest and most popular themes around. In order to make sure it doesn’t break if there is an update to the main theme, I created my own child theme. That’s where I’ve edited the CSS code to fit my needs for the look and feel of the site.
There were some definite challenges to overcome in order to get things to work the way they do. For any of you tech peeps interested in knowing how I did certain things I would be happy to tell you. I might be available for hire if your needs are more serious and within my scope (which isn’t huge). For those who know, secondary page headers on this theme are a bugger and that was one of the first problems I had to solve.
I made it a point to use as few plugins as possible on this site. I think I only use one at the moment (the one that fixes the secondary page header problem). The reason for this is because developers like to change their plugins and/or try to get you to upgrade to a paid version. Changes can sometimes (often) break the site, or at least change how it looks or works. I might not be around to fix it. So my goal was to use as few as possible and keep this site as simple as possible.
If you’re wondering why no playlists for all these songs to play one after the other. That really would have been nice and I feel sad to leave playlists out. The problem I ran into there was that WordPress has dumped their simple, built-in playlist feature for some reason. And, after much research, I decided a playlist plugin would definitely be the most likely feature to break and stop working. That would make this entire effort useless.
Let me know if you have any questions. info at beatsworkin dot com