Junkyard Rocket Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Hello. I'm Michael I've been in bands on & off for over 30yrs since I was a teenager, but only got into regular gigging about 10yrs ago with my previous band , however that band now seems to have fizzled out even though we haven't officially broken up. My current band is Junkyard Rocket, a noisy four-piece pub blues band playing covers and originals. We formed last year and played our first gig together on Saturday, which was great fun. I particularly like short scale basses. The bass I use with Junkyard Rocket is a cheap & cheerful Squier VM Jaguar SS it needs 30" strings so I can't use my favourite Thomastik flats on it so it is wearing a set of GHS 3020L flats. Other basses in my collection include a Stentor double bass, an NS-design CR-5M, a few precisions, a jazz, a musicmaster, a mustang, an Epiphone t-bird pro-v, a Danelectro longhorn and an Ashbory with pahoehoe strings. My rig is a the MarkBass LMII & Schroeder 1212L (with crossover & tweeter removed) and I use a Zoom B3 pedal - I only use one setting on that which is a limiter and SVT sim. I'm a freelance web designer, specialising in WordPress so if anyone has any specific WordPress questions I may be able to point you in the right direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Hat Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Welcome Michael. I could have some questions for ya re general web design. It's something I want to get into as a hobby but don't know where to start re courses etc. any advice greatly received Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Hey Michael, Welcome! I'm sure it's great to have you here, and if you answer one WordPress question from every active BC account per week, I'd say you'd answer less than 400 questions each day. Quite doable, eh? Anyway, enjoy the banter, and share some of your wisdom when/if you feel inclined. best, bert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkyard Rocket Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Thanks for the welcome chaps. The Hat: the best way to get into making a web site is pretty much like playing an instrument, ie to rollup your sleeves and make a start - no matter how small or shaky. Courses and books can get terribly out of date very quickly and unless you are very lucky don't cover what you need at the time and go into detail about stuff that is irrelevant to your needs, so it is important to know aht you're following is up to date & relevant to your needs. There are a lot of free resources on the web and some paid courses such as those on Lynda.com are very good. I started by hand-coding html in the days before css so everything was in tables and the presentation was mashed up with the content. These days the flexibility of WordPress makes it very easy to set up a site no matter what your current level of experience is. Once it is set up, the task of managing the content can then be passed to a less-techie person. If you want to check out self-hosted WordPress route a good place to start is the WordPress codex: http://codex.wordpress.org Apart form that its worth learning HTML & CSS - I've not had cause to look at beginners' books etc recently, but I learned a lot from an early edition of the visual quickstart quide to HTML when I was starting out back when all web layout was table based (I still have a bucket of single pixel transparent gifs from those days). This seems to be an updated version of the book I had: http://www.amazon.co.uk/HTML5-CSS3-Visual-QuickStart-Guides/dp/0321719611 I don't know what the CSS coverage is like in that book but I originally learned CSS from Eric Meyer's books. I kept a copy of his CSS pocket reference on my desk and referred to it several times when I was first getting into CSS - This is a freebie Meyer CSS book for kindle: http://www.amazon.co.uk/CSS-and-Documents-ebook/dp/B008RBQHTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkyard Rocket Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 [quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1364851316' post='2031843'] I'm sure it's great to have you here, and if you answer one WordPress question from every active BC account per week, I'd say you'd answer less than 400 questions each day. Quite doable, eh? [/quote] Ha Ha! Might have to refer people to http://wordpress.org/support/ for that volume - I'm a mod over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 (edited) [quote name='Junkyard Rocket' timestamp='1364840689' post='2031578'] I use a Zoom B3 pedal - I only use one setting on that which is a limiter and SVT sim. [/quote] Nice! Edited April 1, 2013 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 [quote name='Junkyard Rocket' timestamp='1364852714' post='2031878'] Ha Ha! Might have to refer people to [url="http://wordpress.org/support/"]http://wordpress.org/support/[/url] for that volume - I'm a mod over there. [/quote] thanks - useful to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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