Posts Tagged ‘web building’

I just spent the evening making a new template for Maddy’s blog. She chose the picture and I built the template around it. I think it turned out pretty cute. I really enjoyed doing it – I’d love to do some more and work on a portfolio and perhaps do this for a living.

Wow, Wordpress has really come along in leaps and bounds hasn’t it?  I was using Drupal on this site for the past couple of years.  I’d decided on Drupal because it could be manipulated more than Wordpress, but less than Joomla – which seemed way too complicated and had a steep learning curve.  I get bored fairly easily and I’ve wanted to makeover this site for a while.

I’ve been making other sites with Joomla and have finally gotten the hang of it, and installed Joomla on here for a while, but wasn’t happy with it.  I thought I’d give Wordpress another go.  Well, what a nice surprise – the features are vastly improved from the version I’d been using a couple of years ago.  It’s quite easy to get it looking the way you want, and is way more configurable than it used to be – and way easier than Joomla too.  Because of its popularity it has plenty of handy plugins too.  I’m going to have a look around and see what kind of stuff is available – this blog will have all the bells and whistles when I am done!