Anybody who knows me well enough can tell you that I get tired and bored of things quite quickly and today I was thinking that the design of this blog has just about hit the wall for me and I’m about to rip it down and change it to something completely different. However, since doing that has become a daunting task, the mere thought of having to spend hours upon hours tweaking stylesheets and html and php scripts to get things the way I want is just a big fat turn off. At any rate, I started getting interested in WordPress and decided to install it on my server and give it a test drive. Installation was a piece of cake and I like some of the category features, but the fact that an hour has passed and I still can’t figure out how the hell to change the header says something about it. I mean the first thing anyone wants to change on their blog is the header, right? Well, maybe when I’m feeling better I can give it try again. I imported all the current posts as is into the default WordPress template. It’s not pretty but take a look: HERE Don’t post any comments there cause it may disappear.
If I remember rightly I had a similar problem, but as well as adding your “persoanlheader.jpg”, have you deleted the default one?
I’m guessing you have, but I think that was my problem.
Good luck!
Thanks Lee, I haven’t noticed any personalheader.jpg. I guess I’m still stuck in the movable type method of building a blog and have to look at wordpress from a different perspective.
Being an optimization freak, what I don’t like of WordPress is that it generates all pages on request, while MovableType generates and saves them on build (triggered by saving an entry, posting a comment/trackback …).
Also I saw a plugin that dispayed the number of SQL queries executed to render the current page, and it showed crazy numbers like 20 when 5 should have been enough… Kind of a turn off to me.
Of course this isn’t stuff you have to worry about. :)
Patrick, I agree. I initially implemented the dynamic page creation thing on MT but found that it didn’t perform that well on some of my archive pages. Although the rebuilding process on MT takes a long time, the pages are much faster. The feeling I get is that WP is trying to be the MAC of blog software. They have all these comments like “You’re Finished! Were you expecting more?” or “Wasn’t that easy?” etc. Kind of annoying after awhile. I probably will not change over to WP. Maybe I’ll just use that blog for something else.
Thinking of it, most WP users I know are also Mac users.
Who knows, now that your main machine is a Mac, maybe you’ll come to like those silly comments. :)