Monday, August 29, 2011

Why does it have to be so hard?

Have been trying to use Kompozer, the open-source web-authoring tool.  Can't even figure out how to change a font!

I'm never sure why everything has to be so arcane.  I really support the whole open-source world, but the various communities really need to come up with some usability standards.  Too many times I've downloaded what looks like a useful tool only to find it is crapped up in either it's user interface or the fact that there is no documentation and absolutely no intuitive way of learning about things.

I find myself also torn between the Blogger platform and Wordpress.  Wordpress definitely gets more "play" it seems, but everything on that platform looks the same, and even to get the small number of features I'd like (blogroll, site stats, simple design with a relatively large readable typeface) I'd have to create my own theme.  Which means tweaking around with PHP, etc.  Ugh.

I live the fact I can put ads on Blogger while hosting on blogger.com.  Every little bit helps!

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