Loofmodnar.com is built on Wordpress version 2.x.x. The theme is a modified version of the default Wordpress theme created by Michael Heilmann. Nifty Corners Cube is used to create the rounded corners. I also use Scriptaculous, Prototype and Lightbox for some of the fancy effect you may or may not see. There a bunch of Wordpress plugins in use as well but I don’t feel like listing them all. There’s not much to it at the moment but I’m slowly working on it (very slowly).

Originally, the intent of this site was to give me a place to play web designer. I messed with Html, CSS, JS and PHP to my hearts content. The site consisted of a random videos, jokes and quotes I collected from around the web. Eventually, it became a homegrown PHP & Javascript based CMS system that I called FoolCMS. It worked well enough but lacked  99% of the features Wordpress and just about every other CMS have. The only thing FoolCMS had going for it was that it gave me the satisfaction of knowing that I had written the (damn) thing. I always planned to add more features to it but never had the time. When I did have time I usually ended up spending most of it fixing bugs with the current features.

So I switched to Wordpress. While I was at it I also dumped most of the old content since it wasn’t really worth the time to move it over. At first I was a little dismayed giving control over to Wordpress but now I’m pretty happy with it. The site is still a just place for me to mess around with web development but now I can focus less on reinventing the wheel and more on the stuff I actually enjoy such as UI design and creating the content.