First I searched a good theme for Typo and now for Serendipity. Today I changed it and I have to admit I like it, but still I did not achieve the goal, the perfect design. Perfection is a problem because no one will ever achieve it. I have to say I must create my own theme, the sole question is, when will I do this, because I often said that. Okay we will see ;-)

This has nothing to do with the "Change" campaign by Barack Obama, but often "Change" is considered to be something good and sometimes "Change" is necessary.

Okay now the question arises what is he talking about and where does it lead us. In short I changed my blog-engine.

The not so short story is, I used Typo a Ruby on Rails based blog-engine. And since the ruby-interpreter and with it RoR applications as well are a little slowish. Additionally Typo was the sole application using Rails on the server and it would be a nice to get rid off Rails for a leaner server installation.
Now a decision has to be made, which blog software to choose? A precondition is a PHP-based blog software, because other installed software uses also PHP and the server configuration could remain unchanged and Perl is not really an acceptable option. One popular pick is WordPress but I do not like the politics around WordPress. Another quite popular software is Serendipity (s9y) with a lot of plugins and a active community. So I gave s9y a try.

The s9y installation was straight forward, but sadly the migration from Typo to s9y was not flawlessly and I had to do it manually. I migrated only the posts and no comments and trackbacks. One thing is broken now the old permalinks, but I do not really care about that.

So far everything works fine and I am pleased with s9y.

This is "Change (Part 1)" and yes there is even more change I will report of later.

Hey a new design!
It is a new theme shipped with Typo 4.0.0 and it should be the starting point for new themes. I like it because it is simple and clean. But perhaps one day there will be my own theme ;-)

I think, i have to invent a new design because this one is nice but I like to have something original. My site should look like no other site. Okay it will take a while. So just be a little patient.

Da hier ja sonst nichts passiert, habe ich wenigstens mal das Design geändert. Jetzt also Lush, da es auch endlich mit Typo 2.6.0 funktioniert ;-)

I think I have to create an own theme for my typo installation. There are a lot of themes for typo watch the typo theme contest on typogarden.com, but none of them is the one for my weblog.

Welcome to my new weblog. I also want to post needless stuff like so much other people in the web. So here we are!