All Change
Last night I moved my blog to Wordpress. I am happy with it – although I think this theme is going to get changed – but it is the final stage in an ongoing saga.
You see I wanted to put together a page about my crochet. I make alot of thing; blankets, clothes, toys, etc and give almost all of them away. So, a website would serve as a memory of the things I have made. This has been in the back of my mind for a while, but recently, since I seem to have more time being mother to the best baby in the world, I thought I would actually do something about it.
I wanted the site to be connected to my blog as well as have the same look and feel. This is not easy to do with Blogger. So Jamie suggested that I try using a content management system for the crochet site and leave my blog where and as it was. I tried Joomla – REALLY bad idea. They say it’s simple to use; liars! I will admit that despite having a computer science degree, I am about as computer savvy as my mother (there are good reasons for this among which laziness plays a large part). Joomla is a nightmare, but I thought it was just me being dim. I called on Jamie and even he couldn’t figure out how to do the simplest thing. We gave up on Joomla. And unless you are some sort of Prince of Geeks you will stay away from it too.
I also tried CMS Made Simple. These guys have recently won some award for providing a user-friendly CMS. And it is much easier to use, very friendly. The only reason I gave up on it is that after a quick conversation with MGB, I realised he was right, I should just move my blog to Wordpress and then I can have as many pages as I like, all happily connected to and looking like my blog.
So that’s what I did last night and here is my first Wordpress post. I was also proud to find out something that Jamie did not know about Wordpress. Within your theme you can make custom page templates. This I found very useful and the fact that I taught Jamie something knew made me feel good. It also means I am now a bit of a geek!!
Anyway after all that effort it may be sometime before you see a crochet page here, since making the page prevents Jamie from using that laptop and prevents me from getting actual crochet done. But I will get there…. eventually.
John
Aha, so this is where you’ve been hiding!
Theme Create
This is exactly what I was looking for. Joomla is a top notch CMS and this is a perfect example why.
i5m
You should have done a “moving” post from your old site. I’ve only just noticed as I was subscribed to the old feed. And some of us are nosey parkers.
It looks lovely by the way.
I’ve just moved as well.