A confluence of threads. Firstly, my previous template was so FUBAR'd that it's a wonder if even rendered at all. It started life as a 2000 era Blogger template and through various iterations turned into a Movable Type template, picking up every coding mistake and no-no you could imagine. This is not surprising, I never knew any HTML when I started playing with it. I know a little more today.
Secondly, I was getting plain fed-up with the interminable comment spam problems on Movable Type. Even with the latest improvements. Most days I'd have to shovel out upwards of 50 spam comments. I'm sure I could have tweaked MT to deal with it. But.
Thirdly, I felt like a change. Wordpress is actually very cool.
In time I'll tweak the design a little, probably only the masthead after I've worked out how to reconstitute the old motorway image into this layout. Maybe. I've come to realise that blog mastheads are like haircuts and the fact that I keep changing mine must be the signature of some deeper emotional dysfunction or quirk.
Secondly, I was getting plain fed-up with the interminable comment spam problems on Movable Type. Even with the latest improvements. Most days I'd have to shovel out upwards of 50 spam comments. I'm sure I could have tweaked MT to deal with it. But.
Thirdly, I felt like a change. Wordpress is actually very cool.
In time I'll tweak the design a little, probably only the masthead after I've worked out how to reconstitute the old motorway image into this layout. Maybe. I've come to realise that blog mastheads are like haircuts and the fact that I keep changing mine must be the signature of some deeper emotional dysfunction or quirk.