Gutting WP

I'm working on a website designed to show off my designs as well as the designs of others. I can promote designers I admire and share cool art, resources, architecture, anything cool I find online. My goal is to build traffic through networking.

I began the site as a fully hand coded website, from scratch. To deal with dynamic elements I was going to create a WordPress blog and read the posts as JSON. I got it working perfectly... until I uploaded it. Then I hit the dreaded cross domain limitation. After wrestling with this for a while I decided to bite the bullet and make my site fully WP. BUT I grabbed a completely bare bones theme as a starting point. It was pretty much style-less. So it was a perfect choice.

I've gutted the templates and ported over what I had coded. Then I used WP methods to populate portions of my site from pages or specific category posts. It still has issues, and the look is weak, but the back end is nearly complete.

http://norman.atwebpages.com/