Photography Scribblings

I’ve pretty much decided to take Chuck’s advice and use Word Press as the new CMS for this site. There’s a plug-in that appears to do exactly what I want. Stumbling blocks for now are time — and my inability to make the theme that accompanies the Semiologic plug-in yield and look the way I want it to. There’s precious little content on this site but one thing I like is the way that it looks.

I used a linkware set from Groovy Lizard and I’ve never been sorry. After a year or so, I still really like it. I wanted to emulate its look by altering the colors in the theme to match but that has, thus far, been a bust. I’ve bitten the bullet and contacted Groovy Lizard to see how much they would charge me to create themes for both the Word Press installation AND the Coppermine Photo Gallery. I want the two to feel like they’re part of the same site and right now they don’t. This blog’s theme, though very attractive, is yet another look. Not what I consider ideal. Hopefully, it won’t be too onerous a burden for the company to switch gears to themes for *.php-driven programs and I’ll be able to afford a fee.

Barring that, I’ll see about acquiring the linkware set as my own, including the right to make derivative works, and start figuring out how to create a theme for the programs. Since I’d be starting from a position of virtually complete ignorance…that would take considerably longer.