I don’t want to get too carried away with WordPress.  My main goal on Blue Host is to learn Django web development, but this theme did remind me of one of my early research efforts.  When trying to learn how to install the Python connector to MySQL on Windows 7, I was lead to a blog with detailed instructions.  That programmer had this same theme (twenty eleven).  At the time, I thought it looked really good and didn’t know it was a canned theme.  Imagine my surprise when my blog came out of the box looking exactly the same.  Common though it may be, the theme is simple and pleasant.  I may keep it for while.

I should mention, that I decided against MySQL in the end.  Some of the documentation is very unfriendly to people who work on Windows machines.  The connector I mention above does not have a windows installer.  Following the blog instructions, I was able to install it at work. but my home computer may have been at a different patch level, because it didn’t take.  I also had some trouble with MySQL on my home computer.

As a result, I may go with PostGreSQL for the back end.  Their python connector has a windows installer.  Early on, I may just use the SQLLite that ships with Django.  Once all the URL routing is working, I’ll experiment with a beefier database.