WordPress themes
I know the current Hemmingway theme looks nice and presentable, but because of it’s pure simplicity, I can’t manage eye-catching photos onto the front page without botching up the presentation format.
I chose to go with Hemmingway for a quick fix, until I find a proper theme for my blog, or end up making one myself. I think things will look better once I add photos and other links like a blogroll and stuff.
One other fun thing to play around with are Wordpress plugins. I haven’t tried Movable Type, but from what I hear, Wordpress is the bomb. I can’t agree more. I use Wordpress for my team’s blog at work, and I find it amazingly super.
I wanted to give Typo, a Ruby on Rails based blog engine, a go… but after I played around with Wordpress and figured the ubiquity of PHP will give me less headache in the long run, I decided to stick with WP.
What’s good about Wordpress?
- simple, clean, interface
- lots of cool plugins, easy to install and modify via the web
- lots of cool themes, also easy to install and modify
- built with PHP
- runs well on apache and MySQL
- lots of people using it already
What’s bad about Wordpress?
- you need to be a bit technically inclined to work with the plugins and modify the themes
- it’s open source, so you may not get the same level of support as some of the other blogging engines
- it’s built solely for blogging, harder to get it to do other things
- could have better built-in imaging functions, but plugins will resolve this
Anyway, do expect some changes to take place on the blog…. I’ll be playing around with themes from time to time.
Update 19 Oct 2008: Whoops, changed my theme again.
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