Well, I have spent the best part of the evening reminding myself why WordPress is still the best for blogging.

I had an old blog here which used Drupal. Problem was that is was Drupal 5.1 and sorely in need of an upgrade, but given that I had modified the code to make some rather pleasing aesthetic changes it was going to be hard to upgrade (time consuming anyway). Add to that the fact that there were lots of odd happenings on my Drupal site, with spammers managing to create their own blogs (but not post to them!). It was my fault for being lax on security, but it rather proved the point that if you use Drupal just for a blog you are making unnecessary work for yourself.

Drupal is marvelous and a coders paradise. But for a simple blog it is overkill to say the least. And how do you make a Drupal site look nice? Any ideas let me know!

I toyed with the idea of useing Joomla for this blog. I haven’t used it for ages. It makes a great shop in the form of VirtueMart as long as you have a secure host. I had lots of security issues with it when I used it on Streamline.net hosting and had to move that particular operation to Siteground.

Joomla looks great out of the box and there are plenty of really good and professional looking themes (although it can be a touch too corporate and bland). But ultimately blogging on Joomla is just more complex than wordpress, so why go to all the extra trouble.

So that leaves WordPress. Simple to use, simple to customise, love the fact that you can install plugins and themes without having to download from the main site and FTP to your webspace. For blogging, I don’t think there is anything out there better.

Aside, I learnt today that if you accidentally upload images in ASCII then they corrupt and make your sites look horrible! Lesson learnt!