I am striving for simplicity. I’m trying to clean up my office of clutter. I like clean simple UIs. I liked my website when I initially set it up, but now I don’t. The black background no longer appeals to me and even writing blogs using WordPress’s tools is no longer fun. After reading a post on a friend’s site, I looked further at his site and just plain liked the simple, but clean look and feel of it. I saw the Octopress tag at the bottom of the page and looked further. After talking with Dave, I was convinced this was the system I wanted to use for blogging.

I have been following the steps from Octopress website for basic site setup. Octopress requires that posts be written in Markdown, but Wordpress posts are html (although technically php generated html from mysql database contents. Thankfully, Thomas Frossman created exitwp, which I used to convert my WP pages and posts for Octopress. I’ve had to edit these Markdown files to fix image links, code snippets, etc. But exitwp did a good job of converting my past posts to Markdown.

Looking forward to further exploration of Octopress, but mainly just looking for the simplicity it provides. The other features are just a bonus.