I’m in the process of redesigning the theme on the Apocalypse Blog and I’ve been stuck on the colors. I know the basic color scheme I want to use…red, orange, black… alarming colors… apocalyptic colors. I used them in the original theme. I’ve been running into a lot of issues, though - for instance, it seems like the only thing that looks good on red is black. Other colors are just… dim. So I shouldn’t be using black for section headers, although it does look very dramatic and apocalyptic.

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Download Squad has a very useful checklist of things to do following a Wordpress installation. Some of them are obvious, like setting the name of your blog; others, like updating the permalink structure, may not be so obvious to Wordpress newcomers. If you’re setting up Wordpress for the first time, or are running a blog using it but aren’t a Wordpress expert, I highly recommend this article.

WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist - Download Squad
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