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.”