UPDATE: The upgrade did something wonky to my WP and its looking like I’m going to have reinstall everything from scratch. So much for an easy upgrade.

Tonight I took some time to upgrade to the most recent version of WordPress. Looks like quite a bit has changed since 2.0.x.

Let me know if anyone finds anything broken or garbled.

I read this morning that Quark 8 has been released.

Although I don’t use Quark on a day-to-day basis, I learned how to use it for some production design tasks during my college years. InDesign has been my tool of choice for a while and though I’ve had my issues with it, it’s always let me do what I’ve needed to do more efficiently than Quark ever could.

New functionality was added to InDesign with each version that usually seemed to make my job easier and the design process a little bit more intuitive. From what I understand, Quark has come a long way since version 4, but I still found it hard to get excited about the new releases. It always seemed that Quark was just trying to catch up to its big brother, InDesign.

Skimming over the feature list in the new version, it seems like Quark may have finally caught up. While some features seem useless (exporting page layouts to SWF …why?), others like the ability to automatically set up flexible grid systems from page to page) seem pretty innovative and could be really useful.

I’m going to download the trial version and maybe I’ll post a review of it after a couple of weeks of actual use.