Brand new day
If it wasn’t already obvious, the site has undergone a major overhaul! The old template was looking a little long-in-the-tooth and I decided it was time for a change. I also wanted to improve the consistency of the look and feel for non-blog pages.
This blog has been managed since its very inception using Blogger.com and I’ve looked at several blog / content management systems over the years. My goal was to (eventually) host the blog, its comments, polls and a discussion forum using a system that I’d written. Until that time, I’ve finally settled on using Wordpress as both blog and CMS for static content. Big changes indeed!
Old (Blogger) posts were imported and in the process I noticed that formatting has been approximated for a lot of them - custom PHP in the original has been stripped - so expect some of the previous 606 posts to look a little bare compared to their original incarnation. I dont plan on categorizing any of the old posts, but expect that in the future, I’ll make liberal use of both titles and categories that Blogger never used to support. While their new beta supports them, I want more control. I want my own data on my own server. Moving 606 posts out of Blogger was a pain in the ______ so I want the data where I can get to it for future moves to my own system!
Expect to see some Wordpress widgets and plugins promoted through this site too. Getting this site the way I wanted has taught me a lot about Wordpress and has forced me to create custom code for archives and how I handle the CMS side of managing pages for my writing. If you need a custom theme created, or Wordpress implemented, give me a call! 