I have never really had an interest in blogging before until I started toying with the Viviti System. Being a developer and a designer, I really hate to use systems that give me no control over the markup structure ( or scary markup is ouputted ) and or stylesheets. Some do, but most have horrible interfaces for applying customizations.
Who wants to go through lines of a config file defining separate RGBs for various obscurely named variables. Who really wants to have to use some sorta bloated web-based system that essentially does the same. Dumps style variables into databases and then uses that for theming.
I love how I have full control to creating my own template that can be imported and used by the Viviti system. Even if something isn't documented, finding out how to style a new component or a blog component is as simple as looking at the HTML output and applying new CSS declarations to your templates CSS file.
I will get into how to customize components in a later post. I went off on a tangent; I HATED BLOGGING. Now I think I might be able to tolerate it using a system such as this with all the neat components that one can use.
