Tweaking marathon

I had just finished renovating our home at Blogger and not long after that we got our confirmation on our new address at the new Efx2. So, last night I went over to the new place to start another godek godek (tweaking) exercise.

I had used Wordpress before and before I even start, I had already imagine the limitations that I am going to bump into. Unlike Blogger that have lots of flexibilities, Wordpress is somewhat rigid and only allow some standard customizations unless you host it on your own domain.

I really thought that the Wordpress MU where the new Efx2 is built on would be similar to the normal Wordpress but I was wrong. I am not sure about other things that are not there but one of the obvious one is the less number of templates to choose from. Geram aku!

Through out the night and early morning, I tried on all the templates and I could not find any that I really like. I found a few that allow me to customize the header but then I would have problem when I tried to copy our Blogger postings there. After going through the lot I have to settled for one that you can see at BBDP. This is the most flexible template where I can easily copy our Blogger entries to.

On the other hand, Diah, loves to put multi color fonts in her posts and, guess what? The so called "rich text editor" at the new Efx2 does not even support colored fonts. You can change the color of your fonts manually but as soon as you save it, the CSS would overwrite them.

"Sebel banget!", said Diah.

Anyway, for the sake of the community spirit, we would be both at Efx2 and here and wish that the brilliant community leaders together with Keith would come up with all the widgets, gadgets, and whatever stuffs that would make the place unique and fun again. Just like the good old time...

I really missed the recent visitors feature in the old Efx2. That is one cool piece of thing that most people took for granted.

Can we have that back?

Where do you want to go?

When the original efx2 officially fell to the ground, members were scattered all over the blog world and slowly one by one started to emerge from the ruins and build a new home some place, somewhere.

Recently, the brand new efx2 has come to life and the once close knitted efx2 community has begun its rebuilding phase. I could see more and more members have started to build their new home at that new world and some are even ready to welcome guests to their homes. Some circles of friends built during the efx2 era are now being re-established. It is really interesting to see all of these things taking shapes and pieces coming together within a short span of time.

However, some questions remain. Do you want to have a single home or another one for backup? Do you want to join the new efx2 or remain where you are? If you are going to update more than one place, which one would be the main?

While waiting for the new efx2, new homes were built on Blogger, Wordpress, and may be some other worlds out there. Some actually moved back to the homes that they left behind when efx2 was in its heyday and started to renovate them in order to be as comfortable as it was in efx2. It goes to show that efx2 was really a special place to all who have called it home.

We are one of those "homeless" who took refuge at Blogger and have done a lot to make this place a home. May be we would be a few that would make this home as our main home while still taking a space at the new efx2 for the sake of the community. Within our circle of friends, Elisa and Mamarawks for example, have created their new places at efx2blogs.com and looks like they are updating both. These women have lots of stamina! There are some that have gone ahead with their wordpress.com homes such as, Oflionandbear and Rotidua.

As for us. we have asked for our space and waiting for the confirmation. Chances are, we would be posting at both sites. However, I, the Bear, personally prefer Blogger to Wordpress due to the fact that Blogger allows customizations on the template and therefore, many things can be added easily. Whereas, at Wordpress, customization is limited and it is quite difficult even to have a simple thing such as a shoutbox.

May be one day, Keith, the King of efx2 would come up with many of the luxuries that we used to have at the old place. This guy is really awesome for putting lots of personal efforts to ensure that the efx2 community remains alive! We shall wait and see what he would come up with in the future.

Anyway, wherever you are does not really matter. What matters is that we would all homes to be at and for friends to come around for a cup of cyber-tea and cyber-biscuits. Let us all keep in touch and have a great blogging time together!

P/s:
1. Does anybody know where moshimoshi is? Is he still lost in space? 2. This entry was a result of too much food after iftar. So please ignore anything that doesn't make sense.