supafine

Welcome to your new Supafine

Posted on | February 27, 2006 18 Comments | e-mail | print

I finally just grabbed the bull by the balls or whatever the expression is and switched to WordPress.

My cPanel installation has WordPress as a one-click install. I’d been thinking about switching for a while now, because of that oh-so simple install, but I didn’t get around to it til today. My kick in the pants was Paige’s post about the work she did for a friend’s photoblog.

Here are some other pluses:

  1. PHP over Perl/CGI= a good thing for me
  2. bizarrely huge theme/plugin community
  3. plug-and-play, more so than MT
  4. it generates valid code
  5. it’s pretty
  6. the admin interface is super intuitive and easy to use
  7. GUI’s for more things than MT
  8. I was in the mood.

I was definitely in the mood for a redesign, I tell you what. But instead of scraping around and building it by hand [almost as much fun as a swift poke in the eye] I though, Hey fuck it! I’ll switch to Wordpress and use someone else’s theme.

Which is exactly what I did.

The feed’s still bunged up and there a probably a few things what need tweaking, but goddamn. It’s late.

Category: check it out, design, geek
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Comments

18 Responses to “Welcome to your new Supafine”

  1. jess
    February 27th, 2006 @ 2:29 am

    Holy Shit! I love it - so much. Paige’s too. I want one MB! Can a less geeky girl like me handle it? Need some pocket money?

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  2. supamb
    February 27th, 2006 @ 2:43 am

    You could totally handle it, especially if you had someone take care of setting it up ‘n’ stuff. After that, it’s cake.

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  3. patricia
    February 27th, 2006 @ 7:56 am

    holy shit squared. i hit a number of my blogroll links and let them load in the background while i checked email. then i started clicking on each window to get caught up on everyone. when i looked at this window i was all “hmm. what site is this? oh damn. she redesigned!”

    i really got a lot out of MT for a couple of years and then i outgrew it, or got tired of constantly having to hack into it. it’s a great program but it’s not as customizable as some others, like WP or ExpressionEngine. anyway, things look great. are you missing the sidebar??

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  4. paige
    February 27th, 2006 @ 8:49 am

    Jess let me know if you need help - it’s super easy even without the one click install. I bet you can totally do it.

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  5. Ty
    February 27th, 2006 @ 9:20 am

    Looks great! One question…what happens to all the side bars doo-hickies? I love checking out the “word counts” now and then…oh wait you told me that was a thingy on MT, didn’t you…

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  6. supamb
    February 27th, 2006 @ 9:56 am

    patricia, i can’t claim credit for the design — only in my great taste in choosing it :) the sidebar is now at the bottom, and it’s pretty empty as you can tell.

    One of the problems, ty and jess, is that WP doesn’t have the same plugins as MT, so a lot of customized stuff I used to have I don’t have anymore. I’m kind of liking it clutter free for now, though. :)

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  7. Kira
    February 27th, 2006 @ 2:12 pm

    welcome on board :)

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  8. Malnurtured Snay
    February 27th, 2006 @ 2:50 pm

    If you haven’t already, get and install SpamKarma. It’s the BEST.

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  9. Phu
    February 27th, 2006 @ 6:29 pm

    Glad you like the theme:)

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  10. Ben
    February 27th, 2006 @ 11:09 pm

    I

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  11. Greg
    February 28th, 2006 @ 10:23 am

    I started using Wordpress recently for another blog, and absolutely love it.

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  12. patricia
    February 28th, 2006 @ 11:39 pm

    clutter free is the way to be in ‘06. let’s put that on a bumper sticker!

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  13. supamb
    March 1st, 2006 @ 12:16 am

    Patricia: Definitely!

    Phu, I love it. I don’t even want to tinker with it, it’s that good.

    Ben … ?

    Greg, I agree with you. I’m just really liking it.

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  14. Aaron Brazell
    March 2nd, 2006 @ 12:21 am

    Congratulations! I lurve WordPress.

    Hmmm, gotta wonder what is wrong with your feed. Did you regenerate your permalinks?

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  15. Technosailor » She Likes WordPress - Technology, Blogging and Politics
    March 2nd, 2006 @ 12:25 am

    […] My fellow blogger, and fellow Baltimoron over at Supafine has finally jumped from MoveableType to WordPress. […]

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  16. supamb
    March 2nd, 2006 @ 8:49 am

    Ah! I forgot to regenerate my permalinks! Thanks, aaron.

    Movable Type got in the way last night. I’ll fix it today.

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  17. Jesse
    March 2nd, 2006 @ 12:50 pm

    Good move. very good move

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  18. smoking
    April 15th, 2006 @ 9:38 pm

    I love looking at blogs, I think their is a blog for almost everything now.

    smoking joe

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