Despite not having any programmer blood or ability in me, I love scripts. Platforms. Software. Whatever you want to call them. I love them.
I especially love reading reviews on blog scripts and CMS software. Not because I have any intention of moving away from WordPress, but because I’m curious. I can’t really say why I like it. But I enjoy reading reviews, I enjoy downloading scripts I haven’t tried before, I enjoy testing them on my computer (mucho thanks to WAMP).
I spend hours a week doing things related to this; Testing, reading reviews, looking up tutorials, comparing scripts. It just makes me happy inside.
As you know (by the title of this post, my WordPress category, and the footer of this site) I run WordPress. I’ve been running WordPress for a little over half a year now and I can’t be any happier. But this wasn’t my first time using WordPress. I actually hated it back in the 1.0 days.
But that’s a long story. WordPress and I have had our hiccups but they weren’t anything drastic, after about two months we moved in together permanently and WordPress and I have had lovely little babies. Yes, I produce children that fast.
So why am I looking at other software behind WordPress’ back? I have no itention of leaving WordPress behind, it does absolutely everything I wanted it to do when I embarked for a holy grail of a script.
Initially half a year ago I got tired of having to manually edit my pages. Some people couldn’t comment on my blog, the comment form of the script I was using didn’t work for everyone. I wanted nice urls instead of everything ending with .php. All in all, I wanted something that was simple, easy to customize, and let me manage my whole website via admin interface.
I went through a lot of scripts and then I “broke down” and used WordPress. Haven’t looked back.
I look at other scripts because I’m curious. I like to see what’s out there. I whole-heartedly believe that, with anything, there is always something out there better than what you’re using. So I’m constantly curious and I like checking out what’s in the wild. But at the end of the day, I come back to trusty WordPress. We cuddle in each other’s arms and watch the kids try to kill each other.
I’ve tried the two big ones (along with dozens of other scripts), ExpressionEngine and MovableType. They were great and fun to use, but I won’t be switching to either of them.
In fact, the only script that I would ever consider to switch to isn’t even a major player but it’s developing very well, it’s called PivotX. I’m keeping my eye on it. I’ve already tried the last two alphas and I’m really impressed. It’ll be going into open beta (it’s been in open alpha) at the end of March / Beginning of April.
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[Edit] Supporting Mitch’s sudden lime green movement on Twitter, I changed my Twitter profile’s theme to a lime green instead of a pink color. (see? I listen to my audience! now you can’t say I don’t listen to people =P) [/Edit]
I really love Twitter. Really, really do. It’s like.. Blogging. But extremely short. And you can write really pointless stuff. I just love it. My “Tweet” count is at 205. Wow, lot’s of Twittering on my side.
And why do I tweet so much? Because it’s really easy to get to. The Twitter post screen that is. Thanks to Opera, I have a lovely widget (my only widget) for Twitter and I use it all the time because it takes two clicks to get to.
Those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, here is a description (taken directly from the main page. all credit belongs to the peeps at Twitter):
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
It’s sort of like an Instant Messenger only people aren’t on at the same time (sometimes). You can leave little notes for yourself too, which is what I tend to do at times.
Alright, Opera users. Join Twitter.com. Once you’ve signed up, feel free to spruce up your profile, then go to Twitter.com/peachfrost and Follow me.
Then move your little behinds over to Opera Widgets > Twippera and download the widget. You now have an easy two-clicks away access to Twitter without having to download a program or having to log in every time.
And this by no means is me trying to get any of my friends’ attentions so I can contact them and keep in touch somehow (VELMA, BILLY, CUJO, FUZZY, YOSHI, CHRIS).
As for the rest of the world, feel free to follow me on Twitter as well. ;D
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Okay so here I am making the obligatory “New Theme” post. I was originally going to write about something else completely different (seriously. I have a draft post and everything) but I don’t know. I don’t believe I’ll be posting it since it’s no longer relevant. So, onward with the show!
This new theme is mostly CSS and divs (I’ll admit this, the footer is Epic Fail on my part. I used a table. I couldn’t for the life of me manage to make the three divs float next to each other and keep the black background. It was five in the morning so I gave up). The theme, called “solitude” (with a lowercase S) involved a very interesting process to be honest. It developed into something very nice (I think it’s nice anyway) and different while I was coding it.
I specifically went into the whole coding process with a different color scheme and look in mind- But somewhere along the way I changed the background color and went “I’ve got to use these colors somehow…”. And so I did. The theme I was originally trying to create, and port from Livejournal, was minty-peach’s Boss 66. You can definitely see the similarities.
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Like the site needed one, eh? I got bored and added one anyway.
Check it out. Feel free to ask me absolutely anything and I’ll reply.
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I was reading one of my daily websites (and one of my favorite, too) and the author, Mitch, mentioned something that caught my eye. The very first sentence, as a matter of fact! Surprise, surprise, an introductory sentence catching someone’s eye, eh?
“So I guess sometimes I should take the time to write about something non-web related.”
This might not seem enough to warrant a blog post or a huge topic in itself, but it got me to thinking about something I really never put my time into:
How personal should your blog be?
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