12 Jul 2006 0002H

A new day

…so to speak. I have installed WordPress 2.03 here as the first step in bringing myself back up to speed. I’ve used blogware in the past such as Userland Manila to develop web content management solutions for organizations like the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, the Asian Community Online Network, so on, and so, while Manila offered a certain amount of flexibility for development and meeting certain needs for the clients, lack of support for the platform became an issue. Enter WordPress. I began to acquire WP about nine months ago in preparation for rolling out a project for a client, having determined that Movable Type was not suitable for the project, and almost certainly neither was anything else, given the constraints of the clients we were dealing with. No, what they needed was something . . . Manila-like. But with better support and community. This led me to WordPress, after I saw friends and colleagues using the stuff on their own. Now, having said all that, actually creating a decent website using WordPress was not exactly what I would call easy, mostly due to the copious but undesignerly way the documentation was written. I’m pretty unhappy about all that, but, I finally have enough experience dicking around with the code now to say that We Have Control Of The Ship. SO.

More in a few.

And no, I don’t intend to leave this thing looking like this. Gimme some credit, man.

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