WordPress
I've tried Wordpress twice now. I have a kind of "not invented here" attitude with it and because of that I can't seem to keep going. I like the idea of having comments and direct links to posts, etc. and maybe one day I will build my own. For now, I'm sticking with static text.
Cause there is just something much more rewarding about typing my own markup, rather than using a wannabe text editor in some half-ajax enabled CMS. To me a CMS is a lot like a workers Union.
There is a need for them, and people attempt to abbr that need. In doing so, they think "maybe we can automate this also, and solve this other problem...". Before a company knows it they have locked their content into a program that scales worse than a 3 year stock projection for GM. Think Peoplesoft here and you get the idea.
If I were to build a CMS it wouldn't be one of those 'multi-vitamine capsules', it would be more like a single calcium supplement taken every second day.
Aug 14, 2008
1:09 am
I'm not a huge fan of the bolted-on rich text editor either�I wish they'd left it as an included-by-default plugin. But by far the greatest annoyance with Wordpress is the constant upgrade treadmill. To install it by any other means than a svn checkout is lunacy.