Geekery For The Week

I’ve been trying out WordPress to set up a friend’s online art gallery.

But I just kept getting stuck on the same thing over and over.Because I am no WP genius my options are to look for a theme that resembles what I want.I do not like to use themes.But with WP it’s different because a theme isn’t just a design,it’s widget-ready and set up with all the correct WP “hooks”.I don’t quite yet know what all of these are so to fast-track my last job(my client had a short build time)I just heavily converted a premade theme. Now that I have the luxury of time I have considered making my own theme for my friend’s artwork…but I dunno.Seems like a lot of fiddling about when I could just load up a PHP script or 2.

Is it worth it in order to have the WP community and all the cool plugins and etc to turn to? If this were a site for a friend who meant to actually use her site then it would be worth it.But all she wants is her art online.That’s it.Just a place to send folks to see her work.She isn’t going to blog.She probably won’t want comments.I don’t want her art pages to have comments.
I will just have to think about it.