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http://www.darkstars.co.uk/blog/
OR
http://www.darkstars.co.uk

Blog, but only because of the use of contrast, tbh. I actually like the button layout and clean look of the other one better, other than the lack of a news post.

Any suggestions/improvements?

I prefer the blog more, but only because of Argh's reason. The darkstars color scheme is too whitewashed. If you increased the contrasts it would look a lot better.

Well I changed the text on the blog site so it looks better.

That and the blog site runs 10x faster than the joomla site.

I prefer the whitey version, grey blogs have been overdone already.

The second picture looks blurry only because it's been resised and jpeg compressed, but on the actual site, fonts are clear and contrasted.

i prefer white one. first one is just a box

you are actually going to the sites and not just looking a the pictures?

*takes down the pictures*

The blog is faster, but I like better how Darkstars looks.

I prefer Darkstars, but wish it didn't look quite so washed out.

The problem with wordpress is that its meant to be a blog with comments and a few attatched pages. Nothing more. I did a roll-out of Wordpress on the SmuG website last year, and have been having to heavily customize it every since (my own source modifications in addition to liberal plugin creation, installation, and editing).

Wordpress does NOT scale as the needs and content of your site grows.

In the case of the aforementioned SmuG website, I'm going to clean it out and install Drupal on it the next chance i get... which will probably not be for many months

but yeah, you get the idea. Unless you plan on keeping it only as a blog, donut uz wordprez

Well i originally had it as wordpress, remember the back and white blog with the big pull down menu at the top?

Joomla may have been more scalable but it was too heavy weight and I had problems simply maintaining the site. I want to move back to wordpress because its much simpler, and a lot faster.

Thus what can I do to improve the wordpress site?

AF wrote:Thus what can I do to improve the wordpress site?

dont use wordpress.

if you do, you're trading a lot more effort later for a slightly easier setup now.

its important to invest some time in setting up-front to soemthing that lets you save a lot of time later. particularly since i have no doubts any new site you make will eventually grow to be some sprawling portal-esque monstrosity littered with the machinery of various random projects you're working on.

what dragon said, except substitute wordpress for php.

repeat after me: php is fail. php is fail. php is fail...

use whatever language you're comfortable with imho (many hosts only support PHP especially for the cheap plans), but use a scalable framework. Repeat: Wordpress does nto scale.


And based on my occasional lurking, the WP devs do intend to turn it into a full-blown robust CMS.

yes. a "robust" CMS on top of WP's core.

see what I mean now?

they're on crack.


Wordpress is for grannies and one-track journalists.
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Dragon45 wrote:use whatever language you're comfortable with

Usually I'm the first to say that. BUT! IMHO being comfortable with php is a sign of masochism or ignorance.

Yes, I was once comfortable with php. I'm still recovering.

imo that site needed redesigning from scratch anyway. A simple blog style news with small pages for each project would do fine.

That and it was a design disaster, the artwork was subpar, even for you AF, I know you can do far better.

Blogs suck!

ralphie, I dont appreciate the troll, have you actually seen arghs site? Even argh admits its not the best site he could have made and he gave his reasons in his thread.

And Ive worked with wordpress before. I chose to go back to it because it was not a portalesque monstrosity and was simpler. Should I need a portal or a robust cms Ill go for something like drupal.

Joomla was just too heavyweight and too complex to modify, whereas I can make small minor improvents to my wordpress layout without needing to know the extensive internals of joomla.