I designed buttonpresser.com originally in XHTML. I had decided that a commitment to blogging was no longer in my cards. I saw the error in my ways and decided to add one later. I looked around for a theme that looked like something I could tweak into shape but it just wasn’t there. I started to hack up a very simple theme but it got confusing and my style sheet looked like a code version of “Dueling Banjo’s”. It was nasty and wasn’t working and I knew that it would take me a long time to get it functional. I scrapped it.

I took the page that I wanted to emulate and it’s style sheet and opened them in Dreamweaver. I took the default theme included in every WordPress install and opened header.php, index.php, sidebar.php, and the footer.php files. I spent the next hour putting code form my original file into the appropriate php file. I did a “save as” on my original style sheet and replace the WordPress theme’s stylesheet. Vwah Lah! A basic theme based off of my XHTML pages. Another hour of tweaking some of the other files such as comment.php, single.php, and category.php. and I was finished. It was logical, and was pulling my css from the beginning which made it so easy.

Here’s a brief tutorial on how to set it up for your WordPress Blog:

- Go to http://www.jott.com and set up an account, it’s free and quick

- Enter in your info and agree to the terms of service

- Verify your email address

- Enter your phone number (you can add more numbers later)

- Call 1 866 JOTT-123 and it will activate your phone with your Jott account and start you on your first jott, to yourself.

- Go to the “Links” page in your Jott account and add WordPress

- Fill out the info for your blog and blog author and hit “Save”

- Now call 1 866 JOTT-123 and say “WordPress” when it asks you “Who do you want toJott?” Then Start your message.

Remember to speak clearly and in a place without a lot of background noise. Jott does a good job of picking out the right words but it’s a good idea to check the posts when you get back in front of the comp.

There’s a ton of usage with this web utility and voice posts to WordPress blogs is just the tip of the iceberg. I’d love to hear about how you’re using it.