Ronda, Spain, Spanish, Themes, and Everything Else

I think I'm only a few days away from releasing my first Ning template and I know I have a lot of very loyal readers who are possibly wondering what I'm upto. Originally I started producing templates for Serendipity because I wanted a blog that could also act like a traditional website in terms of allowing me to maintain static pages. This worked very well for me and still does on this very site amongst others.

However, Serendipity and Blogger (the other platform I produce templates for) are primarily designed for content management. They have some social networking functionality in the form of comments and trackbacks, and with Serendipity you could install a shoutbox or discussion forum, or simply set one of these up within a subfolder, but they still aren't dedicated social networking scripts.

Ning by contrast is first and foremost a social networking script. It does offer some blogging functionality, but is nowhere near as advanced as Blogger or Serendipity. Ning does provide comments and RSS feeds, but tags (labels) are not currently supported. Read More