Last night I had a screaming match with Typepad. I was trying to freshen up my site design, but instead Typepad just kept screwing up all the column widths, removing content, re-arranging content without my permission, splashing the page with some unholy colors, etc.  I found some great new Typepad blog templates, but most of them won't let you use your own banner, and I'm too HTML-illiterate to upgrade to the fully customizable version of Typepad. So I started playing around with Wordpress.

As any blogger knows, Wordpress is the hipster blog tool. It's the Apple of blog sites. It's the Pabst Blue Ribbon-drinking, Buddy Holly glasses wearing, skinny jeans doning blog tool.  If you're a blogger under 30, chances are you use Wordpress. If you're an old fogey like me (I wonder if anyone under 30 recognizes the photo above), you probably use Blogger (now owned by Google), or Typepad.  I've been using Typepad since it started and I'm now stuck in my ways.  My biggest beefs with Typepad is that my site looks different depending what browser you are using to get here.  Take a look at the sidebar headlines. For some reason on Google Chrome, the spacing between letters is huge. E V E R Y T H I N G   L O O K S   S P R E A D   O U T!  But on Internet Explorer for PC, it looks fine. And when I see my site from Safari for Mac, the entire page looks so small that I need to magnify the page. 

Fast forward to Wordpress. If I thought I was too dumb to use Typepad, Wordpress is for Stephen Hawking. I could make a simple blog, but customizing was excrutiatingly complicated. I gotta say, Typepad is pretty intuitive; you can drag & drop, and altering text is as simple as using Microsoft Word shortcuts like control-B for bold, etc.  

Anyway, that's my rant for the day. If anyone has any thoughts on how to easily redesign this site without screwing up the content, I'm all ears. And if anyone has any suggestions on what they want to see, let me know!