Is WordPress “Too Complicated?”

I am writing this post because I attended a Social Networking seminar and the speaker claimed WordPress was “too complicated…”!  Its been sticking in my craw ever since as I deliver WP as a Content Mgmt System to my nonprofit clients as my preferred solution for most.

I agree that WP is sophisticated, but too complicated?  C’mon!  My opinion matters little, so I am going to pose the question to the blogosphere:  IS WordPress too complicated?  If so, WHY!?!?  If not, tell me that too!  Please don’t get distracted by version releases because I believe WP is getting better all of the time.  And you will be preaching to the choir if you take the stance that WP is getting more sophisticated and/or complex because thats what I love about it.  But complicated?  Compare the lay person’s user experience to Drupal or Joomla and I think WP stacks up nicely.  Tell me what you think, please!

Im Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack~!

Just a quick post here for the sake of doing it… I will be posting more soon and likely in video format. So stay tuned and thanks for your patience during this long hiatus

Happy New Year! or What Recession?!?!

Hope all of you find this new year as prosperous as it has been for me these last couple of weeks!  I have since taken a role as Quality Assurance Software Tester with ShastaQA and love the people and the work.

Also have had so much interest in my nonprofit consulting services that I can barely keep up.

For those of us out there who have been struggling with the economy, I offer my sincerest encouragement to you ~ hopefully a solution is right around the corner.  It happened to me despite all of the doom and gloom and maybe if we keep a positive mindset, this bad economy vibe will subside?!?!?!

Toward that end, I wish you all a prosperous new year!

Cheers

The Icky Wiki; A Moment of Reflection on the Use of Jargon and Parlance

Wiki = Glossary.

Blog = (The contraction of) Web + Log

RSS = Really Simple Syndication (some of you might disagree but hey I am being concise here)

Governmental institutions love Acronyms like the Alphabet Agencies set up by FDR under the New Deal

The disciplines of science, from Anthropology to Zoology developed their own taxonomies to better clarify and classify what the heck they are talking about to one another.

So is it at all surprising that here is another domain, the Internet, that involves more new words? Moreover, is it surprising that those inside the technology realm tend to use these new jargon terms to sound smart and exclude others outside our lil-iverse?

My point is we should try to use jargon appropriately and inclusively. For those of us hoping everyone gets across the bridge (over the Gap of Understanding) we are compelled to make it easy for everyone. So I am gonna “borrow” someone’s Internet Wiki and post it here…  The Winner is Wikipedia and the entry “Web 2.0″

Any offerings are warmly invited.

New Look For This Blog

Thanks to Bryan Veloso for his theme ChaoticSoul!  Also thanks to Free Blog Headers for Theme Designers, Background Desktop Images

My mantra:  “A website should be as wonderful and up-to-date as a fresh baked loaf of bread!”  Using existing open source stuff helps to mitigate design and implementation costs.  Off-the-rack solutions may seem generic or unethical, but if we trackback and give due credit, we all win.  Besides, I am just gonna wanna change it again in a few weeks anyway…

Thanks again to the open source community at wordpress and beyond for your awesome resources!