I toyed with decorating my blog for Halloween but, lacking inspiration, I decided there was another way to ensure my blog looks suitably gruesome. Sad geek that I am, I have spent the long weekend switching from Movable Type (MT) to WordPress blogging software! 🙂
If you don’t have a clue what that means, you’re not missing much. The upshot of it all is that my blog will probably be behaving a bit strangely over the next few days (weeks? months? 😀 ) while I deal with the aftermath of the changeover. So, if something is not working right or looking pink enough, I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know!
I have been meaning to make this change for ages. It will be much easier for me to tweak the look and functionality in future and I am delighted to have MT out of my hair at long last, even if moving away from it gave me a few grey hairs. 🙂 The moral of the story is: don’t put off doing something to save yourself some hassle, because the longer you leave it the more hassle it will be!
I have also tried to clear out my sidebar a bit. I have moved all my links to a separate page. Most of them are missing at the moment, but I have always wanted to link to more places and I think that is a better way of doing it. I miss my blogroll though, so it may make a comeback. I have also made an archives page, as the lists were becoming a bit unwieldy. I am conscious of the fact that I will need to link to these more prominently (basically copy the impeccable Mr Finucane!) but I need to give the old noggin a rest for now…
I hope to post again soon, but Happy Halloween in case I don’t. I’m off to eat more of my ghost and pumpkin marshmallows. 🙂
Dammit, I envy people who can do CSS properly. What a smooth switch
Welcome to the revolution! 🙂
It’s much better over here on the darkside 🙂
thanks anthony but if you saw my error log, the words “smooth switch” would not come to mind!!!
and i was in the wordpress camp in spirit a long time ago. i just was not too keen on the moving bit. still, i can only truly appreciate the wonders of wordpress now. i’m *loving* the plugins and themes!!! 🙂
Welcome to the world of WP!
Very neat changeover. Unlike me and my multitudes of problems when I try to change themes, let alone a major change.
fence, i wish i changed my theme even half as often as you do. come to think of it, i wish i posted half as often as you do! 🙂
Janine – are you using IO Error to stop spammy comments? You seem to be getting a lot of them recently
Do you have an rss feed I can subscribe to?