I feel your pain. There are many things I love about WordPress but I don't have the time to learn CSS right now and I don't want to spend the money on customizing.
For my blog I bought some templates. They work OK. For French Maid TV's web site I learned iWeb. I wish I could combine the ease of design that iWeb has with the publishing and RSS power of WordPress. It would be awesome if I could design sites in iWeb and make them work in WordPress but then I want an electric car for under $20K and Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny as well. At least I'm allowed to dream. ;) Tim Street [email protected] http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet On Feb 10, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Brook Hinton wrote: > To be fair, Wordpress, along with other blog and CMS solutions, is > hyped all > over the place as being easy and requiring no knowledge of much of > anything. > Unless you're happy with one of the simpler free templates and never > upgrade, it isn't true, but there are reasons some of us less geek- > smart > folks jumped to it, even if they turned out to be bad reasons. > When I contemplated moving from typepad to wordpress I was told by > so many > people: > "If you can use typepad you can use wordpress, and migrating is easy" > "There are so many good templates you won't need to code anything, > even for > that video stuff you want to do." > "Because it has pages you can replace your whole web site without > needing to > code anything." > "It's perfect for you, you won't have to pay someone to set up what > you want > to do." > > WIth the exception of the migrating of data, which was easy, none of > it was > true. > > Etc etc etc etc etc etc. WIth the exception of the migrating of > data, which > was indeed easy, none of it was true. All from people who used it, > knew how > to code but who also knew that I could barely cut and paste my way > through > editing some simple html. > > So many of us are NOT "the same people that buy a car and expect to > never > have to > change the oil in it." We just bought the hype that no oil was > necessary to > begin with. > > A little googling reveals the same stuff now being hyped about CMS > like > Drupal and Joomla. > > So since I'm not in a position to pay anyone to do these things for > me, I'm > learning CSS and whatever else I have to learn. I don't want to, but > I sure > wish I'd known I had no choice back when I first jumped in. > > Brook > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
