Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Blogging Nerdness: I Now Heart WordPress Over the past couple of years, I've tried blogs and blogging with nearly all of the major players. Call me fickle, but I've tried Blogger. I use Movable Type at work. This one is done in Radio Userland. Lately I've been flirting with another: WordPress. Created by Houston native Matt Mullenweg, WordPress is free and it's open source, which means that anyone can read and modify the program's basic source code. With an worldwide community of users working on the software, features can be added and tested more quickly than with many commercial programs. There are many more technical, geeky reasons why WordPress rocks, but its ease of use and horsepower are what drew me in. If you just want to post without worry, it can handle that. If you want to adjust the look and feel of your site or meddle with the code, you have the tools you need. And when you run into trouble (as I did a couple of times), all it takes is a few seconds of Google searching to find the answer. I set up Alexander von Koopa's new site, Koopa Korner, in a matter of minutes and taught him the basics of posting and updating last night. 5:10:48 PM    comment []