Edwyn Chan’s Weblog

First day back in beijing. Beijing has been my 2nd home for the past 3 years.  its good to be back even though its pretty cold.  I will be in town meeting up with people and attending the Annual Chinese Blogger Conference,  aka cnbloggercon 2007 and the Web 2.0 event organized by Orange.
The Blogger conference [...]

Its been open source CMS for me this weekend. First it was MT and WP now its Joomla. I heard Joomla was powerful from my brother, Erik, (i think?) and that his harmotion site was made with it. It sure does feel more powerful than WP, but it so much harder to [...]

Likes:

plugins are great, just like firefox, i can customize what additional functions i want to add
free themes

Dislikes

Errors caused by themes and plugins that aren’t compatible with v2.3

Themes that aren’t widgetized.   why would anyone make a theme that doesn;t support widgets?

(Since i don;t know CSS yet, i can’t do much editing the themes)

quickly following my first movable type post, which is no longer available, this is my first wordpress post. I originally used movable type 4 to host my blog but was disappointed in the lack of plugins and the difficulty in installing and using plugins. Wordpress is pretty intuitive and not hard to install [...]