Months ago, Vinny told me about WordPress. He was all ranting and raving about the thing. Telling me that I HAD to make the switch from MT because WP was so much more functional, slick and mighty!
Understand that I am a creature of habit. I don’t like change a whole lot. When I find a place where I’m all comfy and cozy - I tend to dwell there, happily. But I took a look at it, regardless. It looked slick. It certainly did look mighty fine. But - you know….I was comfy.
Then all of a sudden all these friends around me started making the move. Jay did it. Then my bud Chelle did it. Of course, as I mentioned, Vinny made the move, too!
Now, I’m no sheep. I’m not one to do something just because everyone else is doing it. However - between the three of these blog buddies of mine . . . with the way they were going on and on (ad nauseum) about how awesome this tool really is…well, I was feeling - *sniff* - left out. You know - the wall flower. The girl who never gets asked to dance. The last one picked for the kickball team.
Of course, I realized I was doing it to myself. All I really needed to do was open up that program that I downloaded months ago and take a look inside the wrappings and see what all the hub bub is about. I’d prove them wrong. I was happily existing within my MT environment, thankyouverymuch.
Then I looked. It was…*sniff*…beautiful.
No rebuilding! Only THREE basic templates to do - not 8, or 9 or 10! The ability to password protect entries! The cute little smilies built right in! 
< —SEE?
I played and tinkered. When I got the MYSQL database set up - the install took all of 5 minutes, tops. Once I got the template looking the way that I wanted - - the MT import took about 2 minutes and I was done!
Ok - so Jay, Vinny, Chelle - - - here it goes…..you know this doesn’t come very easy for me, so please empathize.
You were right.
11:56 pm on April 7th, 2004
Hey where was the Fr*nch poster on the top left?
12:14 am on April 8th, 2004
It’s somewhere on my hard drive
9:29 am on April 8th, 2004
It looks very nice Lisa - - and I see the other design lasted ONE day
10:37 am on April 8th, 2004
Yea, she’s gonna start changing look as often as she changes, um well you know.
So is your Elegant Webscapes going to start supporting WP?
6:25 pm on April 8th, 2004
GB - you betcha
The reason why this blog is changing so much all the time is because I use Just A Girl as a guinea pig site to test all the cool stuff so I can continue to offer a variety of diverse services at Elegant Webscapes 
8:43 pm on April 8th, 2004
I knew you’d do it eventually, and I knew you’d love it. Welcome to the herd
8:54 pm on April 8th, 2004
Moo
9:23 pm on April 8th, 2004
looks pretty nice.
waz about to start browsing your blog, then I saw that stupid Bush Blog thing up there… yuk…
12:37 am on April 9th, 2004
Mighty close minded of ya, Mr X. Good riddance, then
1:14 am on April 9th, 2004
Whatever happened to separating the art from the artist?
4:10 am on April 9th, 2004
WordPress, eh? Interesting…
9:32 am on April 9th, 2004
See now how does wordpress work? Is it free? Do you run it from your home pc and do an ftp sever thingumajig? Is it as easy to use as blogger for the unknowing amoungst us?
This place looks fab.
11:06 am on April 9th, 2004
I’m hearing so many good things about WordPress at the moment - but their website is down at the minute. I really love this look by the way.
2:42 pm on April 9th, 2004
Built in smileys? I’m all over that like dots on dice.
2:42 pm on April 9th, 2004
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5:24 pm on April 9th, 2004
Fluffy - it is free. You run it by uploading the entire program to your web server (if you don’t have one - I know of a Geat Host). Then you install it by following simple instructions and configure it and off you go
5:25 pm on April 9th, 2004
Daisy - it’s truly awesome, WordPress is. give it a whirl
And thank you for the comment on the site - that’s sweet 
5:26 pm on April 9th, 2004
Dots on dice? So when are you converting, Jason??
3:37 am on April 10th, 2004
I’ll convert when I catch my breath from configuring my current host. That and when I’m through weaving a tapestry of profanity.
6:46 am on April 10th, 2004
Nice design!
10:24 am on April 10th, 2004
Gee, Jason - I’m also a webhost and own a hosting service at Blogs About. Need references? You can ask Vinny or Chelle or UptownGirl - those are a few who host with me
10:25 am on April 10th, 2004
Thank you, MaThIbUs
3:50 pm on April 10th, 2004
I think I was just too impatient for my top level domain to filter through the ether. Everything seems to work now. I’ll probably let it ferment for a year before I think about switching hosting again.
Who is that chick?
3:56 pm on April 10th, 2004
The girl on my blog is Angelina Jolie - ain’t she hot?
4:46 pm on April 10th, 2004
Absolutely spiffy, one hint, might want to remove the “Powered by: Moveable Type 2.63″. First thought was that was a WP permalink structure, so had to be WP.
Second thought was painted toenails, Rob would like this.
Third thought was why don’t I have this pic of A.J.?
9:48 pm on April 10th, 2004
Ok - duh. I changed the Powered by link - thanks, Mog. That woulda stayed up there forever!
Painted toenails rock.
Painted toenails on AJ rock even harder.
11:44 pm on April 10th, 2004
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11:39 pm on April 11th, 2004
I suppose I could run both, eh?
12:41 am on April 12th, 2004
So, aside from rebuilds, and less templates, is it the entry field that’s so nice? I use a posting tool along w/my MT that adds html tags and such… I love the floating content, but what else made you switch? The WP site is as dry as the MT site. Not much to go on…
1:09 am on April 12th, 2004
yeah i had this
now i have this
7:19 am on April 12th, 2004
Daniel - The WP entry field has quick tags that make text formatting pretty easy. MT had the I, B, U, & URL tags and WP has those and a few more - also, it’s configurable (if you know where and how) to add more tags.
WP has an internal link management system so you don’t have to rely on blogrolling anymore and it’s (sometimes) slow response.
If you want to password protect a single entry - WP allows you to do that. IF that’s something you find functional.
For me, it’s a cleaner interface - the less detail I have to pay attention to, the better.
8:10 am on April 12th, 2004
Jason - so far so good
Now ya just gotta get rid of that default template
11:09 am on April 12th, 2004
I have to admit having more tags and local blogrolling is pretty swass
10:13 pm on May 8th, 2004
Spectacles now adjusted. This is one heck of a beautiful site. Even if that is Angeline Jolie after all. Welcome to WP
10:18 pm on May 8th, 2004
Thank you, kindly, Root.
You can adjust your spectacles over here anytime
10:36 am on January 26th, 2006
Love your Site!
6:57 pm on February 14th, 2006
I couldn’t agree more!
4:25 pm on February 15th, 2006
Thanks for the information. Very helpful.
11:21 am on February 24th, 2006
Finally found some good infomation on the subject.
3:19 pm on February 26th, 2006
Thanks for the information. Very helpful.
11:38 am on March 4th, 2006
First Time here and I like this stuff.Well done!
3:30 pm on March 5th, 2006
Just when I think i have it figured I have something interesting to read! Good Stuff!
Richie
9:54 pm on March 10th, 2006
How did you come to this conclusion? i just wonder…