Wordpress: Why I hate you
I am a huge advocate of form being defined by function. To be honest I don’t like this theme a lot, but it does what I want. It is a ‘clean’ and ‘neat’ theme. I always liked themes which put emphasis on readability. This is why I like two column themes where the body is as wide as possible. Wordpress is a great blogging platform, but only if you have it installed on a server of yours. Yeah probably that is why a lot of geeks prefer it. There are things that I don’t like on wordpress.com (remember wordpress.org is a different entity- and it rocks) I cannot add any Javascript, cannot add google analytics or adsense or any other advertising service. Does not fully support Safari and have to write this using Firefox, though when I contacted them they told me they told me that they will fix this in the next version. They removed the feed count on the blog-stats page. Considering that the guys who viewed my posts were like 2-3 times more than my average daily visitors, I think I have a valid reason to scorn this time. Any blogger would be happier if he has more feed subscribers. They let you edit the CSS style-sheets, if you pay. This just sucks.
Among other things which suck is the mast. Too bling-bling. The thing left to the text on the header (the blue image) looks like an image from a six year old’s birthday party invitation. The space between text paragraphs is too less and perhaps the font-size a bit small. The link color in the body text is too subtle, and may not get noticed. Tell me if you like it not, special emphasis on readability as I said.
No I won’t shift to Blogger, google seems to have forgotten the words ‘Do no evil’; and may well go down from the list of my favourite companies.
Ah well, I like to crib. Enough about the benefits and disadvantages of Wordpress. I do hope that you like the new theme and let us end this on a jolly note. I read this somewhere-
The box said Windows 95 or better, so I switched to a mac
July 31st, 2007 at 2:19 am
Oh yes, Wordpress 2.2 lets you use TinyMCE on Safari.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:35 pm
haha…liked that last line!
August 1st, 2007 at 3:45 am
If you are so unhappy with your ability to modify your site, why don’t you get your own URL and host it? There are many reasonable hosting packages out there. And if you are not a coder/programmer yourself, I am sure there are people that can help. As far as your new theme goes, I like the Zen colors.
August 1st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
the template looks really cute..and congrats!
August 1st, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Michelle, I have been thinking of getting my own URL and hosting it for a long time, but the problem is I just cannot pay for it right now. It is not about the programming at all. I just wish that they let you do all that for free. I don’t really understand why not.
@ Vega: Thank You
August 1st, 2007 at 4:07 pm
nice new template.
the rest of your post went completely over my head. [:P]
August 1st, 2007 at 4:09 pm
oh crap. stupid orkut had resulted in some real bad habits. i mean :-p
August 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Tania, ah yes. I think that I ought to cut down on my geeky posts.
August 2nd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Nice theme bro!! I didn’t get the part about google though… I mean… I don’t have any idea what that means… And, seeing that I like cribbing as well… I guess i kinda agree with your sentiments…!!
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Anunay, I was referring to the corporate motto of Google which is ‘Don’t Be Evil’. Google in recent times seems to be forgetting this and is alienating itself from the user. If it keeps going on like this, it will become another Microsoft, albeit a successful one.
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:25 am
You can get a domain for as low as $6 and hosting for free from FreeHostia.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
if you really liked wordpress.org, you post title should be “wordpress.com - why i hate you?”
August 7th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Sadish, I think I agree that it should have been like that, but now there is no real point in changing.
August 12th, 2007 at 4:18 am
You’re back to your old template! Yay!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Wow cool site! to be honest, I am surprise of the power of Wordpress!
keep it up and hope you post more ! So that we benefit from it!