You may notice that the look of the blog has changed completely. Having gotten completely fed up with my original design, I decided to switch to fBlue until I find the time to finish coding my new design. When that will be, I’m not sure, but I probably won’t have the time to finish it up before the new year. In the meantime, know that I’m still alive. Just barely.
Also, you should all go check out Mark’s blog. For those of you who don’t know, Mark is one of my suitemates and my best friend. He has a terrific sense of humor and produces some of the best turns-of-phrase I’ve ever known. Don’t mind the sleep deprivation, we’re all suffering from that right now.
Hee hee… you have the “school crossing” icon in the top right corner of your page. I am officially amused.
I think I may have to join in this massive site-redesign trend; I’ve been making some incremental changes to some of my pages, but the whole site looks rather clunky and inelegant.
By the way, it must be relatively easy to migrate your posts from one content manager to another? I’ve seen you with several different site designs now without any loss of content….
I’m amused by the pedestrian crossing sign, too. And I like the colors. Overall, I chose this design because its “out-of-the-box” condition annoyed me the least
My sites are virtually in a constant state of redesign or needing redesign because I’m constantly learning new things that I want to try with them. I’ve actually got a lovely new design for the main site, but I just haven’t transferred all of the content over and/or finished creating the new content. Similarly, I’ve got the design pretty much finished for the blog, but I haven’t ported the code into WordPress template form yet.
It’s easy to change the styling within a single content manager easily, which is I think what you’re asking. In the case of WordPress, you upload a different set of PHP and CSS template files and then you activate the new theme. In WordPress, all of the content is stored separately from the templates, and the engine just takes the theme templates and inserts the appropriate content when it builds a page.
Migrating posts from one content manager to another, however, involves switching from, say, Moveable Type to WordPress, and that’s somewhat less seamless. I know WordPress, in particular, has a number of entry import tools, but, as with all things, moving from one software system to another has its bumps.