I don't consider themes an excuse to use WordPress, although I agree about designers offering designs to wordpress.
When I need a design that "doesn't look like PmWiki" I often will grab designs from Open Source CMS or other websites and plug PmWiki into them. Of course, I'm also a designer. Lately I'm doing responsive designs. My 2 latest responsive designs (load the page and play with your browser width to see the effect): http://passionizing.com http://myindependentliving.org You don't have to settle for what's available on PmWiki.org. Maybe I could write up a recipe/instructions/tips for skinning PmWiki. I've done it so many times....and I have some macros I use to do it even quicker.... I'd be willing to share how I do it. Maybe I'll do it with a responsive design and share a skin. I already did 1 responsive design (Mobile Skin) -- so you could cheat and take that very very bare-bones design and add a banner, play with column widths & colors, and boom! you have a responsive design (that's how I did Passionizing, above + I added a responsive menu plug-in, but it's not a drop-down menu so I'm not thrilled with it). But right now my head is crammed into XMLRPC full-time. :) Crisses On Feb 5, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Chris Lott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Crisses <cris...@kinhost.org> wrote: >> Any website you want to create that can be done with WordPress can be done >> with PmWiki. And technically, vice versa. But which is the easier path? > > Depends on the need. There are plenty of very capable themes that > totally transform the look and feel of WP, which is often a need for > me. Almost all of the relatively very few PmWiki themes still look > like PmWiki with some light CSS hacking. Many more graphic designers > are designing for WP. Yes, that can be done with PmWiki, but it would > be a waste of time reinventing the wheel in some cases. > > It is also nice, sometimes, to have a db to access information from > when that data is being used in different ways and not just from > within the "primary" site. > > PmWiki is awesome and the multi-tool analogy is fine. In the end, > there are times that the specific, full-size tool---expensive and > awkward as it might be in some situations---is preferable to the > multi-tool versions. > > I'm happy both PmWiki and WordPress exist. > > c > -- > Chris Lott <ch...@chrislott.org> > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
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