Adam Kuban: Kublog

If you’ve visited this site in the last few weeks, you haven’t had much to look at. First some ugly default <a href=”http//www.movabletype.com/”>Movable Type</a> templates and then probably nothing. Well, I’ve moved over to WordPress for now.

I love MT. It’s what I started blogging with. And the people behind it are great. But with MT4, things just got too complicated. For one, I have no idea how to tweak the stylesheets. There are several nested ones, and to propagate changes in the right places, I have no idea which template to edit. I thought about simply stripping it all down to one very simple CSS file, but then I’d be missing out on a lot of the features built into MT4.

And then I thought about what I needed for this site. I just wanted a very simple introduction page at adamkuban.com. With basic “About” info and links to my resume and to this blog. And I wanted to offer a quick glimpse at my other online incarnations at Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

I could have done that all with MT, but it involved setting up multiple blogs and “pages,” and then I was still stuck with themes that I wasn’t really happy with. So I poked around on WP, found this NinjaMonkeys adaptation of Hemingway, and boom. I was up and running.

It still doesn’t have everything I want. But it’ll do for now. It looks clean and simple, and until I have time to really delve into customizing a site, it’ll work.