Well, once again, I’m changing to a new web technology:
- First it was just HTML .. crafted by Netscape! Remember the great HTML editor available in the Netscape browser?
- Next I converted to Textpattern, a brilliant CMS/Blog engine.
- Finally, because the Santa Fe Complex is using WordPress, I’m converting to using it.
This is not because I dislike Textpattern. Indeed, I believe it to be the best blog/CMS combination I’ve seen. Extraordinarily sophisticated.
But we, our 501c3 non-profit, chose WordPress for our site due to its huge popularity. We have several professional web designers on our webteam who have extensive experience with WordPress.
So I decided to convert my website to WP so that I could better understand what we are doing.
The current page as of Thursday, September 3, 2009 is simply WP Classic (not Kubrick!) with my old site’s CSS. It’ll change quite a bit over time as I begin to better understand WP.
Why Classic and not Kubrick? Here’s a hint: try running
grep ‘{‘ style.css | wc
.. in both the themes. Here’s what you’ll see:
wordpress/wp-content/themes/classic: 60 190 1102 wordpress/wp-content/themes/default: 130 458 2683
More than double the CSS for Default/Kubrick. No brainer.