[wp-forums] Theme.

[Les Bessant]

The only thing wrong with Classic is that it looks awful. The code is fine,
it just needs a new CSS that makes it look attractive out of the box. I seem
to recall there was some discussion that Classic was meant to look nasty to
encourage people to make their own designs. Great for people who already
know CSS, not so much for people who just want to have a site that works.

A lot of this stuff comes from the hacker mentality - which is fine if
you're coding for yourself and like-minded people, but if you're appealing
to a wider audience, some compromise is necessary.

While we're on things in default themes, having a section headed "Meta" is
another example. The first time I saw that, my reaction was "what???". 


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Les Bessant les at lcb.me.uk
Losing it[1] - http://lcb.me.uk/

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[mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Vicki Frei
Sent: 12 November 2005 16:24
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Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Theme.

Entirely true, and I agree with your statement on Classic - which is 
REALLY too bad, because it's so easy to tweak it's almost silly.  And in 
fact, regardless that I have YEARS in the css/html business, I took one 
look at "default's" guts and dumped it in favor of Classic to start out 
with when I started with WP in February.