6:12a.m. Lather Rinse Repeat ‘07 — So Fresh and So Clean

Well it has been almost a year, but Lather Rinse Repeat is back! Yay! Back with a new layout run on a new CMS.

I just finished. I am getting quite sleepy. This is not completely done, of course, but it is certainly close enough. It is messy and although it validated through the software I used, it probably won’t validate on the web yet. So, here it is, as buggy and messy as possible.

For no particular reason here is a [short] list of observations I have made while making the new incarnation of Lather Rinse Repeat.

• Since this was my first time working with WordPress, I started with the Hemingway Theme and essentially hacked it to bits.
• The WordPress TextMate Bundle made working with new template tags pretty much painless.
• TextMate, between its excellent support for Markdown, WordPress and blogging in general, has completely exceeded my expectations of a text editor.
• I used TextMate with Typo, but I never really looked into what it could really do. Boy, can it do a lot.
• WordPress is a lovely CMS with a wonderful community full of resources. Is it perfect? No. Are there somethings plugins don’t fix yet? Yes. Will there every be a perfect CMS? Probably not. Will I keep looking for it and talking about it? Of course.
• I do still want to learn more ruby and eventually do it all on rails again. Keeping a stable version of Typo that was capable of being easily updated was just too difficult to handle last year. WordPress is pretty good if you want to to be able to do plenty of customizing while keeping some sort of upgrade-ability. Or at least it seems to so far.

And there you have it, here is the quick and dirty ‘07 version of Lather Rinse Repeat. Close to a year delayed, and created in a week. More stuff to come. I’m off to bed, I have to go to the dentist in the morning. Teeth are important. Yes they are.