Comments on: Try it all over again http://reallylongword.org/2008/12/try-it-all-over-again/ Difference Engine Diary Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:19:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David http://reallylongword.org/2008/12/try-it-all-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-141 David Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:16:21 +0000 http://reallylongword.org/?p=703#comment-141 Yeah, I switched to site5 a while back. Not playing the admin game all the time is pretty nice. Wordpress bugs me in that it seems like they've put a lot of thought into the way things could be designed but then just gave up on the page design itself. And the community seems to attract a lot of people that don't know they're bad at design, so searching for themes just brings back a lot of overwrought ass. But the admin interface doesn't look half bad, and I don't have to look at the front page. People are just going to read through the RSS feed anyway. Yeah, I switched to site5 a while back. Not playing the admin game all the time is pretty nice.

Wordpress bugs me in that it seems like they’ve put a lot of thought into the way things could be designed but then just gave up on the page design itself. And the community seems to attract a lot of people that don’t know they’re bad at design, so searching for themes just brings back a lot of overwrought ass.

But the admin interface doesn’t look half bad, and I don’t have to look at the front page. People are just going to read through the RSS feed anyway.

]]> By: Heather http://reallylongword.org/2008/12/try-it-all-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Heather Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:06:18 +0000 http://reallylongword.org/?p=703#comment-140 Having just made the switch to WordPress, I do have to agree with you that their themes kind of suck. I like the overall platform much better than Blogger for various reasons, but I wish I could do more with the style. Having just made the switch to WordPress, I do have to agree with you that their themes kind of suck. I like the overall platform much better than Blogger for various reasons, but I wish I could do more with the style.

]]> By: David Cantrell http://reallylongword.org/2008/12/try-it-all-over-again/comment-page-1/#comment-139 David Cantrell Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:07:36 +0000 http://reallylongword.org/?p=703#comment-139 Are you using a hosting company now? I have to agree with you that WordPress themes sort of suck. And the whole reason I was interested in using WP was so that I could not worry about design, so I never understood the whole, "you can make your own" responses to asking for nice looking themes. It's all a matter of taste, I guess. I'm using Blogger to drive my blog now, but it publishes to my web site, so I'm not hosting it on their side. Looking at what it does under the hood, it seems to work like nanoblogger. Generic a bunch of static HTML pages and upload them. I'll just consider it a blackbox. Are you using a hosting company now?

I have to agree with you that WordPress themes sort of suck. And the whole reason I was interested in using WP was so that I could not worry about design, so I never understood the whole, “you can make your own” responses to asking for nice looking themes. It’s all a matter of taste, I guess.

I’m using Blogger to drive my blog now, but it publishes to my web site, so I’m not hosting it on their side. Looking at what it does under the hood, it seems to work like nanoblogger. Generic a bunch of static HTML pages and upload them. I’ll just consider it a blackbox.

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