The Weekend Chef Redesigned

I completely redesigned The Weekend Chef over the weekend. I converted it from CuteNews to WordPress. While I liked CuteNews and their message boards were full of support and friendliness, WordPress simply had more features — built-in or plug-in — and a more polished look. Plus, I got tired of waiting for the new release of CuteNews that was due out any time.

The conversion was not as easy as the Greymatter conversions. The only way to import the recipes and other articles was to use an RSS feed and I spent most of Saturday struggling with CuteNews to get it to produce one. Apparently there are all sorts of symbols like &, °, and ¢ cause all kinds of problems. (I guess we’re about to see how WordPress handles them with their RSS feed. )

Anyway, that part was a nightmare. The installation and configuration of WordPress was quick and painless. I did have some design issues that I had to spend a long time on — for example, I wanted to implement Nifty Corners as a way of distinguishing recipes from other articles. I really wanted to try to make it look more like a recipe card but I haven’t figured that out yet. Oy.

Anyway, I’m pleased with the design though a friend did mention she missed my old logo. I am trying to find someone to create a new one for me — I was thinking of maybe some sort of superhero-looking chef. I tried contacting 2Cool but he hasn’t responded to my email about it.

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One comment

1. on April 11, 2007 at 8:03 am

   Greg said:

   Hello,

   I also planned to move from Cutenews to Wordpress. Do you have a tutorial or could you explain how did you do to export your content in RSS ?

   Thanks a lot for your help.

   Greg

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