Ta-Da

I’d been mea­ning to teach myself enough css, php, and sql to finally use Word­Press, a power­ful, fle­xi­ble blog­ging uti­lity, cer­tainly moreso than Blog­ger. The pro­cess was fas­ter than I had expec­ted, and I’m really plea­sed with the results and loo­king for­ward to Word­Press’ poten­tial. Com­pare to my hind­sigh­tedly hideous Blog­ger site. Yuck.

The migra­tion was easy enough, but the cus­to­mi­za­tion couldn’t have been pos­si­ble without these sites:

• UrbanGiraffe’s Word­Press Theme Guide: A great hands-on dis­sec­tion of the inter­nal wor­kings of WordPress
• Catsudon’s guide to Andy Skelton’s Blog­ger impor­ting tool: Quickly fleshed out my Word­Press site with plenty of XHTML-invalid posts from my old Blog­ger site
• Web Design Group’s Guide to CSS: Use­ful, but limi­ted, as I came to discover

…and of course all the Word­Press docu­men­ta­tion and codex.

Like I said, there’s still much XHTML inva­li­dity, due enti­rely to Blog­ger, but I’ll be fixing this slowly (stan­dards, stan­dards, stan­dards). Some for­mat­ting quirks I’ll be iro­ning out as well, so there may be var­ying degrees of gar­bling in the near future. I could say more, but I won’t, but I will say, “If you’ve thought about switching to Word­Press, do it, if for no other rea­son than that you’ll learn so much about css and php in the process.”