Are what I am fussing over now. There are so many WordPress options and plugins and features and modifications and so forth that a person can tinker with—even after having had a template professionally designed—that it can be overwhelming.

I was up too late last night working just on the favicon (that little graphic thingy that appears next to a bookmark, and in various other places depending on your browser); but at least I am pleased with how it finally came out. If I hadn’t been able to take advantage of a free trial of the excellent Studio program from Microangelo, I might still be working on it. Man is it ever hard to fit two reasonably well-formed serif capitals into 16 by 16 pixels.

Any readers who are interested in whiling away the hours ginning up favicons for their own website could do a lot worse than starting with the favicon entry on Wikipedia, and the aforementioned free demo from Microangelo. Several of the links at the bottom of the Wikipedia article are rather helpful also.

When I am a bit closer to the end of this tinkering madness, I will write up some posts describing some things I have learned and discovered and installed and tweaked. In the meantime, I have placed an automatically-updated list of active plugins on the still-under-construction About page for anyone curious. I will also likely continue to post the odd tip here and there along the way.

But now it’s time to get back to learning a little about PHP, so I can improve my chances of not breaking things as I play around with stuff deep in the guts of my theme…