pardon the stink but I feel like venting.<\/p>\n
I installed wordpress today. the intention was to go in, customize the design I did in photoshop a bit and be up and running within two hours. I am an art director working for a large ad agency. a designer by trade, I never bothered much with coding. yeah, I know basic html and that is that. and why bother. I do tv. I remember having had a blog a couple years ago, I essentially threw a page together and replaced the dummy text with tags where the software should place the entries, headlines and so on. easy, I thought. two hours and I’ll be done. <\/p>\n
of course I failed miserably. programming is tough. css is tough.
\nand all those files now needed for the themes? they might be a lot easier for updates and daily fixes but you know what? I only need to do this once or twice and when I initially looked at this heap of files, I was intimidated and lost. it’s a steep learning curve. I don’t think of myself as the most easily intimidated user. I was willing to sit down and read a bit about it. but I gave up. <\/p>\n
my rant is about themes. I am doomed to use them. I am doomed to use something someone else has designed and programmed that anyone else can use and that a few probably do. I feel my individuality is being crushed. <\/p>\n
I wished there was a simpler option.
\nI wished it was 2000 again. <\/p>\n
when all it took were a few ah-ha moments and you had the thing doing what you wanted it to.<\/p>\n
maybe I am missing something?<\/p>\n
has simplicity really fallen by the wayside?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-449174","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/449174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/449174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}