First Time User – First Impression

Ok, I just spent my very first hour with WordPress. First impressions.

Installation was easy, thanks, well done there.

The extendability features such as plugins and themes, very cool.

Control panel, not so great. Text from some panels intrude in to other panels, covering up buttons and parts of the text entry form. Uploading image doesn’t work, error message obscure, no link to details, dead end.

Overall, operation of basic publishing functions should be obvious even to newbies, and they’re not obvious or clear to me, and I’m a perl programmer.

To each their own of course, but my guess is most users would be better served with something simpler, and more reliable.