Finishing the web site
Today I spend some time finishing my new web site. I think that I will work on this template called Integral. You can find info about the template at the end of the page (check out the parting words). Anyway, I messed up a bit with the CSS. I’m reading a few manuals about HTML and CSS. Apparently they will turn really helpful. A good easy-to-use editor is missing from Mephisto. I say so, because compared to other similar projects, it has a very intuitive user interface but when comes to posting you find your self lost through HTML tags which is not handy for everyone. I’d wanted for my best friends to blog with me, but that will not be possible because both of them don’t share the passion and time that I do for computers and Internet. Why should they bother learning HTML? The good news is that you can use a desktop tool and post through XML-RPC. Textmate works great, I’m posting through TM right now and seems to work fine.
As for Mephisto compared to Wordpress. No. I use Mephisto for two days while I’ve used Wordpress for almost 2 years. Wordpress has a huge community around it. The main reason for me choosing Mephisto are the good comments I’ve read about it online and the fact that runs in Ruby on Rails. I have a sympathy for Ruby. Apart from that, the Themes that are ported for Mephisto are not fully compatible with it yet. I mean, you need to edit the Templates manually in order to make them work as you would like them. For instance, I don’t have an option to add links on the left of the screen. I’ll do it manually, but it’s not handy. I’m not referring to advanced users, whatever that means, and it will take a few weeks (probably) until I finish my templates setup. I’d like to install a photo web gallery and use the same template if possible. We’ll see about that in the future.
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