Needing to rethink my site
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Needing to rethink my site
Some of you may have already seen some little changes on my site. I’m slowly trying to recode a lot of the backend of this weblog. I currently use Greymatter with some slight modifications of my own. It’s been nice and really helpful but over time it just can’t hold up to what I want to do.I’m hoping to move to a much better Content Management System like Moveable Type here in the next couple of weeks. The biggest reason for the change is fuctionality and code it outputs. Right now Greymatter doesn’t spit out the most compliant code (unless heavily modified) and the guy that made Greymatter doesn’t want anything to do with the program anymore. He’s moved onto new things.
Moveable Type is still going strong and coming up with new features. My only concerns are importing my 250+ posts into it and having it all work as I want. Needless to say it will be a long day that day.
A recent article by Meg Hourihan on the O’Reilly Network site gave me that much more reason to quite pondering on whether or not I should redo my site and start the whole process soon.
For being a person that evangelizes the importance of web standards and the beauty of CSS - I’m far from where I need to be on my site. I might just use the same design but convert it all into CSS but I’d really like to change the style and explore new territory.
Plus I need to make room for other things that I’m hoping to put on here.
John S. Rhodes Says:
Thanks for the tip about Noah Grey. His photography is wonderful.
Also, for a long time, I was using Greymatter. It was good for a while but it wasn’t handling the comments on WebWord very well. It kept bombing out on me. So, I made the switch to Movable Type. I haven’t been bothered by any real problems for quite some time. I just post and move along. I enjoy using technology the most when I don’t need to think about it at all.