… and we have lift-off!

I’ve finally succumbed to the wonders of CMS’s for blogging, and now I have made the switch, I don’t know why I didn’t sooner! Wordpress is a breeze to mod on a theming level – all in all, it took me around 10 hours to theme it into what it looks like now from it’s standard off-the-shelf theme.

In terms of CMSs I’ve a good deal of experience dealing with Drupal theming; granted, Drupal is a far more complex CMS distribution and leaves Wordpress (more of a blog anyway) in the dark when it comes to expansion capabilities. But seriously, Wordpress is sooo easy to theme.

You’ll certainly many similarly styled elements when compared to the off-the-shelf theme - I simply duplicated the default theme folder and started theming, as I didn’t have enough time to code from scratch. As a result, there may be some elements that are broken, but as the h1 of the site says, it is Beta (very Web 2.0 thing to say, hehe) – if you do see anything that looks out of place, I’d really appreciate a quick email highlighting the problem.

One fairly major problem I’ve noticed so far that is not do with my theming efforts, is that there is no styling associated with the RSS feeds. As Wordpress is set-up currently to produce these feeds from just a URL variable (originated from index.php), I think I’ll probably have to mod the Content-Type field in the Header entity to set a conditional to change the Content-Type to ‘text/xml’ depending on the variable of the URL.

Some posts on the site will be alerts to check out articles that I’ve written on CSS3.Info, and othes will just contain general natter.