Putting my mouth where my money is
So here’s wordpress blog #3,714,201, which makes me extremely late to this party and probably a bit unwelcome. But I did briefly drop in earlier (c. 4 years ago), and have not come back empty-handed. I am back because I want to…
- Put my mouth where my money is. A big part of my day job involves trying to persuade other people to blog. I will be able to influence and advise them much better if I top up my first-hand experience. So I have been blogging inside work for about a month and now I’m public too.
- Feel what it’s like to be a civil service blogger. Steph put this really well on his blog, which has a similar (more focused) remit:
- Re-aquaint myself with the world’s best blogging software. It’s been ages since I’ve tinkered with WordPress. A lot has changed. I need to catch up. Right now, I am knee-deep in widgets and plugins and code, with about 50 Firefox tabs open, and loving it.
- Strike while the iron is hot. It genuinely feels like exciting, important things are starting to happen in government’s use of web right now. It just got really interesting, and I’m going all in.
“I’d like to experience properly the challenges and opportunities of blogging as a civil servant and a private citizen”.
I don’t expect this to be easy, but want to join the discussion about whether the guidance helps or not.
I’ll be blogging quietly for a while until I get this all set up how I want it. There’s a chance I’ve bitten off more than I can chew trying to fit blogging in around everything else …but that’s the theme for the blog. Let’s see how it goes…
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Thanks everyone, I feel all warm and fuzzy.
…Now can anyone tell me how I edit the recent comments widget to add a space between the entries? Where are the default widgets hiding…?
@Neil re spacing of items in the sidebar. Try adding this to the bottom of your stylesheet:
div#sidebar2 li {
display: block;
}
What does that do exactly? NB my stylesheet already had this:
ol,ul {
list-style: none;
}
Part of this theme’s design seems to be to suppress lists, and that was ok with me apart from the recent entries list which needed a space between each item. Mind you this is better than it was, so thanks.
Certainly good to hear that you have joined in Neil. we too have a similar blogosphere where we have most of our blogs in the region. anyway, keep up the good work with the site man. Cheers
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Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
Glad you took the chance, Neil. Hope you are well. Look forward to catching up in person sometime soon.