Well, what I’ve read somewhere it’s true: people often return to Blogger.
I’ve used WordPress: more advanced and all, but more boring as well. It lasted just a few more than one month.
I also realised that many of the features I thought were missing on Blogger actually aren’t missing, you just have to work a little harder to activate them (for example, permanent pages).
The main problem with WordPress is the very limited use: wanna customize the layout? Pay. Yeah, right. Wanna embed media? Forget it, it’s dangerouus! OK, gimme a break.
I actually had to do another blog, iMick, to post media, and yet another, miXwidgets, yeah, for the widgets. I might still use iMick to create cool collections of media I can embed here, but not to post.
miXpost is going to be, once again, the one and only place where I blog, using resources from other sites if necessary.
I celebrated the return changing the layout. I couldn’t do it on WordPress, so I did it here.
I just needed something simpler. I actually realised, visiting my own blogs and others’ blogs, that I much preferred simple layouts, one column for the post and one sidebar for archives, links, widgets, etc.
The so popular three columns templates tend to become a bit tiring, because you tend to jump between two sidebars and scrolling up and down to find sections. With one sidebar you know you just have to scroll that to find you’re looking for, so you either read a post, or check the sidebar contents. Simpler use.
I also noticed that I found useful lists with bullets preceding items to immediately identify them.
So here it comes the Tic Tac blue theme, with just a couple of tweaks on fonts and colours for a warmer feel and better readability.
Home sweet home.
Welcome back to miXpost!

Si tratta di un’occasione imperdibile per vedere una delle migliori band dal vivo in Italia (se non forse la migliore in assoluto).
E’ noto come ciascun componente del gruppo eccella nel proprio strumento, senza abbandonarsi a sterili virtuosismi ma anzi riuscendo sempre ad emozionare, ed ovviamente a divertire, considerando che l’humour rimane pur sempre il loro aspetto principale.
Ho pubblicato una recensione del loro ultimo capolavoro, Studentessi, sul mio vecchio blog, miXpost.

I’ve started yet another site, iMick, but this will be used just to post embedded media which is not allowed by WordPress or to post collections of pics, music, vids, books, links, etc. The main site remains this and the most of what I’ll do on Vox will be reported here.

Until a few years ago I was making a traditional website.
Then I made a site which looked like a blog.
Then I started a proper blog.
I realized that with WordPress I can keep a blog and a site.
In the free version you have few, if any, design options, and you’re very limited in embedding media.
But the publishing options are very advanced, you have both categories and tags, you can publish a summary of a post with a link to the full post, you can make static pages and you have 3 GB of storage for pics.
I’ll try to import the most of the contents from my previous projects, which of course won’t be updated.

So I hear you all, wondering “But why Mew Order?“
Well, I’m a New Order fan.
I also like Mew.
I also like cats.
The wordplay has been easy.

OK, OK, and “What’s on the banner?“
The “M” of Mew is taken from Mew’s logo, the rest is written with the same font used by New Order to advertise the 1993 releases, then you see Jonas Bierre of Mew, a cat (which “mews”, geddit?), and Bernard Sumner from New Order.