Comments on: WordPress blogs are ugly?

By: Gravity

Gravity — Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:12:06 +0000

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

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:10:58 +0000

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 ).

By: OF Jay

OF Jay — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:26:27 +0000

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.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:25:35 +0000

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?

By: Jim S

Jim S — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:25:40 +0000

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??

By: Trey Givens

Trey Givens — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:04:43 +0000

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*

By: Vinny

Vinny — Mon, 31 May 2004 06:10:15 +0000

Yeah. And people read Playboy for the articles…:???:

By: OF Jay

OF Jay — Mon, 31 May 2004 01:02:34 +0000

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.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Mon, 31 May 2004 00:38:35 +0000

Please don’t expose her too much; that bitch is harsh…

By: OF Jay

OF Jay — Sun, 30 May 2004 23:49:22 +0000

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.