WordPress

What is the main problem with WordPress, well it’s that everything you do with it, looks like it was done in WordPress.  Even with wonderful designers coming up with ever more exotic and inventive themes, you can always tell it was done with WordPress.  I know this is an issue with all CMS’s, its just that WP technically is not a CMS it’s a Blog platform, people just try and try to use it as a CMS.  I’m not saying they don’t get good results, I’m just saying that what they get will always look like WP, and if they try and push it, it usually ends up looking like WP Being pushed outside its blogging comfort zone.

If  I had a decent following, which I don’t,  I probably would get a bunch of comments from angry WP lovers with links to a wide veriaty of sites made with WP.  Clicking on these links will bring up some wonderful examples of how far one can take WP. They will still all look like they were done with WP.  Its not something to get all in a huff about, I mean it definitly doesn’t bother the Flash site designers,  you can always tell a site done in flash.    Flash however has a coolness eyecandy appeal to it though, I think with WP the coolness and eyecandy really is fadding with its overpopularity.

Where am I going with this? I don’t exactly know right now, but I just know I definitly don’t like going to some software site and immediatly telling that they decided to make the site with WP. The sacrifices and limitations are almost always obvious.

Final word…..I think SquareSpace type things that are really designed as very easy flexible CMS’s for the mass’ need to become more prevalent,  so people stop overusing WP and using it for things they shouldn’t.  Then years from now when sites start looking different again, like they did before WP and other CMS, a super cool designer can come along and make retro templates for the latest site builder apps

The taco side of this. Please if you are opening a taco stand please, please don’t model yourself after Filibertos and especially don’t go naming it something ending in -ibertos.  Like WP made sites, its been done to death and quite frankly the results aren’t too good.

Final point: Blogs in WP are ok though, because that is what it was made for and it works well for that.

Microsoft Showing Old Self

I can’t believe it I am actually proud of what I’ve seen from Microsoft lately. Bing is good, and in my mind is a shot across Google’s bow. Windows 7 is remaining clean and in the right direction. I even like their commercials lately. They dropped the running app limit for starter edition of Windows 7 too. I only hope they get Silverlight adoption right. They will be back in old competitor crushing form.

I hope a couple of the old mexican restaurants hear in Phoenix make a return to their old forms. I’ve always liked Arriba and Macyos, but as they expanded their mini chains, I think their food and innovation suffered a bit. One thing I am finding in this recession is that upping quality is the only way to justify not lowering prices. I hope these once greats take that into account. I also hope Microsoft decides to look at Silverlight as a way to get back some of the hobbie programmers they lost when the jumped VB to .Net and stopped supporting VB6. A low barrior language for Silverlight would catch Adobe way off guard, and would really spread adoption.