On the use of WordPress themes
A recent newsvine post suggests that many WordPress themes are overused to the point of making them annoying or even intellectually worthless. While I can see the point to a certain degree, a part of me wants to believe that content is still the measure of an excellent blog site. I have to admit, however, that the truth is really in the the union of good content and good style. For better or for worse, the prevalence of some themes, especially the defaults shipped with WordPress, doesn’t allow for much stimulation of that part of the brain that is always looking for something new. So, I encourage everyone out there using a common WordPress theme to take a couple of hours to learn some basic css and tweak your theme a little bit. You’ll find the effort will pay big dividends to your readers and your own sense of individuality. For those of you looking for a great book, check out Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, published by O’Reilly. You can actually learn css and enjoy the process!
Why I chose a combination of Joomla! and WordPress
There are so many possibilities for constructing websites. My review of modern web techniques led me to believe I should invest some time to learn and use a content management system (CMS) to handle my website content. The idea of separating content from presentation really resonated with me.
Off-the-shelf CMS systems, both commercial and open-source, provide such a wealth of functionality to leverage that it just doesn’t make sense to develop a new site from scratch with no third-party software solutions. But, there are so many choices? How can one not be completely frozen trying to weight the pro’s and con’s of each route. Well, for me, the winning ticket came down to the combination of stable, well-documented code and good support, even if it meant a trade-off with flexibility. Joomla! is the CMS I chose for the “business” part of my site, and WordPress is the engine I chose to run the blog site you are now reading. So, why two different CMS engines?
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