So, yeah, after being bullied into installing WordPress again I thought I’d have a look at what I can do. Turns out that some of the colour customisations isn’t dissimilar to what I was doing in Blogger; just tweaking HTML colour codes for fonts in the CSS. As for the page design, I thought that was determined by some obscure witchcraft that I’ll never discover, but it turns out that it’s all in /wp-content/themes/default/images/ or something. So it’s already looking a little more presentable. It’s certainly not looking anything like that blue and white mess WordPress users start out with.
Y’see, I just want a blog; I’m not going to be saving the world or revolutionising design, I just want somewhere where I can post my thoughts, and where they’re easily navigable. Which is why I thought WordPress would be overdoing things with it’s installable admin thing and it’s more complicated CSS editing. However, after nosing around online I discovered the aforementioned images folder and discovered that in addition to all the CSS tinkering, there are a bunch of editable images that make up the look of the background for the header, footer and many other things. My old site design wasn’t very sophisticated, but it was mine and I had complete creative control over it. Until I’d found these images and the CSS, I didn’t feel like I had any control.
I might play around with the look of this thing a little more in the future, but for now I’m just saying hello and giving a bit of background info on this thing.