I picked up this book to remind myself all over again what the whole deal about blogging is. The book tries to be funny (like all For Dummies series), but succeeds only in a few places. For example:

The High Road: Self Installed Blogging Programs
Installing sophisticated blog software in your own server space is the most cost-effective way to get full-throated blogging power over a long period (I disagree). This method is also the most challenging way to start blogging. I don’t mean scratch-your-head challenging. I mean tear-your-hair-out challenging. Grown-men-weeping sort of challenge. Self installation of a blog is like building an SUV.

Ha ha! Now that was funny. And I agree with the latter part. But I guess people like Arun may not. He successfully hacked Wordpress to make his site: http://www.split-magazine.com/ And it looks damn good! I wish I had the time and expertise to hack my web-gallery and make it look the way I want it. Which brings me to the question: Are PHP templates editable in WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver? Something I intend to investigate today (yea, most of my weekends are spent in front of the ‘pooter). I am completely self-taught on this whole website building thing, and sometimes I wish I spent my 4 years of college learning such useful things rather than trying to find something to do in the jungle!