Wordpress blogs are ugly?
- Ugly?
- Ugly?
- Ugly?
- Ugly?
- Ugly?
- Ugly?
Ugly?(Dunstan uses his own blogware, as cleared by Michael Heileman in the comments.)- Ugly? (There, Kartooner, you are no longer ignored, dear sir.)
Riiiiiiiiiight.
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[...] Mind of Mog 27.May.04 Free Vs Fee Jay has the scoop and some examples of just how spiffy free can be. Course, not one to keep quiet, I have a [...]
Pingback by Mind of Mog » Free Vs Fee — May 27, 2004 @ 7:09 am
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Free Vs Fee
Jay has the scoop and some examples of just how spiffy free can be.
Course, not one to keep quiet, I have a few examples of my own of spiffy design without duplicating Jay’s list.
Now with all that inspiration, I need to get to work here.
Trackback by Mind of Mog — May 27, 2004 @ 3:09 am
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I am of course flattered to be included in your list
— I do have to just let you know that Dunstan (http://www.1976design.com/blog/) isn’t using WordPress, but rather his own software.
Comment by Michael — May 27, 2004 @ 6:18 am
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redesign again
Well it’s easy to see, this design is nowhere.
Ofcourse it ain’t a design (yet) really.
I am in the middle of a redesign and I am taking my time.
It turns out to be chronic it seems and I don’t wanna stay ugly !
Since I have ported to WordPress…
Trackback by 12inter.net — May 27, 2004 @ 6:24 am
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WordPress IS sexy!
Comment by Max Thrane — May 27, 2004 @ 11:20 am
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You left kartooner.com off the list.
Comment by Skillzy — May 27, 2004 @ 1:34 pm
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It’s quite alright. I’m used to being left off the list.
Comment by kartooner — May 28, 2004 @ 9:48 am
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No, he’s right. Wordpress is *much* harder to make a good-looking (or even average) site in. It’s taken Z and I 6 weeks to make a WP template that looks almost as good as our MT one, and it’s still not right.
Comment by Ian S. — May 29, 2004 @ 6:20 pm
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Just because you can’t or not used to it, does not mean it’s harder…
Comment by Max Thrane — May 30, 2004 @ 9:40 am
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Wait a minute, you’re taking a comment from that dumbass to mean anything?
Dude, she’s a fucking moron, end of story.
Comment by Vinny — May 30, 2004 @ 6:37 pm
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Vinny, how is it that I can count on you to put me back into reality? Dude, I’m having my fun giving her the necessary exposure. She dug for herself a Texas funeral. I’m just inviting more people to the service.
Comment by OF Jay — May 30, 2004 @ 7:49 pm
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Please don’t expose her too much; that bitch is harsh…
Comment by Vinny — May 30, 2004 @ 8:38 pm
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Hold on a sec. Isn’t she more popular than I am? If such is the case then my exposure of her is an exercise in wasting time. She must be popular on the merits of her writing.
Comment by OF Jay — May 30, 2004 @ 9:02 pm
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Yeah. And people read Playboy for the articles…:???:
Comment by Vinny — May 31, 2004 @ 2:10 am
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I’m going to pretend that I was left off because I hadn’t fixed my style sheets yet and not because everyone is a bigot against red.
*pout*
Comment by Trey Givens — Jun 1, 2004 @ 9:04 pm
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I’m not saying they’re “UGLY” per-se… but from what I’ve seen so far, including my own WP test-blog, They seem to be fairly generic… ie: blocky content section on a background color with a header pic.
I’m still just a “newbie” at WP, but it seems the blogs aren’t like you see out in the MT world… while when I first started diving into MT, I could usually recognize an MT blog, with WP, I haven’t been wrong yet…
perhaps it’s because WP is still almost brand-new and nobody’s customized as much yet??
Comment by Jim S — Jun 4, 2004 @ 1:25 pm
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Although Wordpress is a nice, simple (maybe a little too simple) blogging tool, I have yet to see any really stunning sites. Personally, I want to create something with a nice curvy look to it, like this Drupal theme. Anyone do something like this with wordpress?
Comment by anon — Jun 15, 2004 @ 10:25 am
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So, you leave a comment with no way to reply other than here, so I guess I’ll have to be harsh in public instead. Read my lips: It’s not in the blogging tool that you use that brings out a “stunning” site. If the Drupal theme that you showed me came with the package, that’s because someone designed such a theme to go along with it. Oh JOY. You can do *anything* with wordpress, movable type, drupal, mambo, scoop… you can make them as ugly or as “stunning” as you want. You can even make them unstyled. But one thing you’ll never convince me of is that it’s the CMS’s fault, because more than likely it’s the fault of someone like you who won’t take the time to make his own layout and study the means to do so.
Mind you, did you click through the damned list? Because I saw two blogs on there that had “curvy” corners at least on their main containing boxes. Bugger off.
Comment by OF Jay — Jun 15, 2004 @ 1:26 pm
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Blog systems are not design applications. They’re a type a CMS, which stands for CONTENT management system. If you can’t make it look good, I’m afraid you should blame it on yourself. Saying WP blogs are ugly is about as relevant as saying they’re stupid… It has nothing to do with the software, and everything to do with the author.
And I seriously doubt you could tell my blog is powered by WP just looking at it (besides for the credit line at the bottom
).
Comment by Mr. X — Jul 18, 2004 @ 1:10 pm
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I guess that is all opinion. Here is a template I took and completely re-wrote…
http://www.gravityworks.us/a.wpblog/
This is wordpress and it has the EzStatic Hack / Adhesive and comment subscription plugins.. along with some other things like phpadsnew…
Looks pretty to me
Kind regards,
Gravity
Comment by Gravity — Jul 23, 2004 @ 9:12 am