I did a few things tonight to get things moving.

First of all I downloaded and installed the Boilerplate theme. In lamens terms this consists of a clean (blank) theme, something I can build on. It means things will look very sparse until I do some designing and building. This theme is a combination of the Starkers theme and HTML5 Boilerplate.

There were also a few extra WordPress post-install steps that I made sure I did, this post – The Ultimate Guide to Setting up WordPress after an Install has proven to be very handy over the years and most of it is still applicable to WordPress 3.2.1.

(WordPress is a CMS which I can use to edit my pages and blog posts separately from the design, makes things a lot easier. Its also plays nice with search engines)

Here are the plugins I have started off with (I am sure more will follow):

• Akismet
• FeedBurner FeedSmith
• Google Analytics for WordPress
• No Self Pings
• WordPress SEO
• WP-DB-Backup