Hi,
the title pretty much says it all: Why would i want to swtich from Atahualpa to Montezuma? Should I, anyway? What would be my advantages? More performance (i.e. less bloating, faster response times, less css, less anything)? Better mobile compatibility? Better compatibility in every area (I imagine the HTML5 thing might be a problem for people with older machines - is my assumuption wrong?)?

I am interested in everything that improves the site experience for my readers (and does not deteriorate it for anyone) so I am sincerely interested in this. Is Montezuma just better than Atahualpa when it comes to end-user experience?

Different themes do different things - Atahualpa you know, easy to customize, Montezuma built to be responsive but the backend it totally different, in my mind you need know CSS and php to customize it.

As for performance, no idea and I don't think anyone has done any studies on the subject.

I'm studying and converting to responsive web design. So Montezuma is of interest. Is there a write-up or review of Montezuma you can recommend? (I can search, but help in separating the wheat from the chaff can be a big timesaver.)

Two things I'd hope to know are 1) how involved the transition would be in my time and thus the cost to my client. (I try to be very affordable.) And 2) whether Montezuma will likely be developing into a "major player" with major development, or is perhaps more likely to be a side channel that won't "shine as brightly" as Atahualpa?

Hi, Juggledad!

you write:

"Different themes do different things - Atahualpa you know, easy to customize, Montezuma built to be responsive but the backend it totally different" ....

And what about ThemeFrame? Is it easy to customize ....

ThemeFrame is a theme creation tool, not a theme. like comparing apples and oranges with different seed catalogues

OK. Thanks.

Originally Posted by juggledad

Different themes do different things - Atahualpa you know, easy to customize, Montezuma built to be responsive but the backend it totally different, in my mind you need know CSS and php to customize it.

As for performance, no idea and I don't think anyone has done any studies on the subject.

Hello,

I don't know if this qualifies as "study on the subject" but I am of the "one picture tells more than a thousand words" school, so I want to share my Montezuma based website score:



Of course that result does not just come out of any random cheap shared host install (as sysadmin I prepared a VPS for that), but it proves it can be done.