Installing WordPress is relatively straight forward. I’m not going to argue with that. The default themes aren’t bad, but as one friend once said to me, “all WordPress sites look the same.” He’s right. I’ve just spent ages browsing through themes and not found anything that is outstanding. It’s not because you can’t make WordPress sites look different. It’s just that your average blogger perhaps hasn’t the skill to code an entire theme or perhaps the time. After all if they were particularly apt at coding they may well just write their own blog software from scratch, perhaps using a framework. Of course if someone wrote an amazingly different theme lots of people would adopt it and then we’d be back to ‘everything looking the same.’ WordPress sites lack of distinctiveness is due to WordPresses success. The thing is of course that WordPress is very good.. why should I spend my valuable time maintaining custom code to just publish a blog. I have briefly looked into writing some themes for WordPress in the past, it doesn’t look to bad however I’ve just not been able to find the required weekend to get it done. Instead I plan to hack this theme a bit and then just get on with whining on about stuff.