I dabble in a bit of djing as a hobby and from time to time entertain adult beverage enthusiasts with my talents. The great part about djing is you meet an abundance of other dj’s who all have their own means of marketing, some none at all. A long time college friend of mine found out I had started djing and we have been sending mixes back and forth to each other, djing together on occasion and collaborating on projects. He didn’t really have a forum to share his music and I’ve been all about experimenting with new mediums so I thought I’d give Tumblr a shot. At first glance, tumblr has a great UI and it’s extremely easy and clean to set up. The custom coding and theme making still alludes me but we’ll get to that later, I’m a wordpress guy, go figure. I opened an account with a gmail address for him and away I went. Found a nice simple theme and just looked at the interface and started playing around, going through some forums online to familiarize myself with the ins and outs of the system.
One thing I can say is that the design process, editing and hacking the themes apart and putting them back together is MUCH simpler and easy to achieve thanks to the built in editors. The code for the theme I started with wasn’t even commented for the most part and it was still fairly simple to change it as I saw fit after some interpretation of the code. I went in, added an image to the header and splashed come color here and there and edited the typefaces and sizes the theme had specified.
The great part about the Tumblr UI is that it is user friendly for the normal average everyday web user. It seems to be more streamlined and less detailed than Blogger or Wordpress. So my advice would be if you are dealing with a smaller client that wants a simple blog (believe me this sample site is very very simple) it might be a good option. But when you’re doing a free favor for a friend and for kicks and fun, why not keep it simple.
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