At first it felt like cheating, using a CMS (WordPress). After all, I could be writing this all in HTML and CSS. Or I could finally crack open that Flash book that’s been gathering dust on my shelf for a few months, now. But in the end that’s what kept me from updating the old site. I’d come up with an idea, go to actually put it up, and wind up once again cursing the ancestors of whoever designed IE as I tried to make it look as good in that browser as it did in any four others.
So, my hope in using WordPress is that I’ll be moved to update quite a bit more frequently, as doing so (hopefully) won’t involve any coding at all. Thus far, at least, setup has been relatively painless, and posting stuff is about as easy as it could be.
I’m using BytesForAll‘s excellent Atahualpa theme, for those who might be interested. It offers a huge amount of customizeability–at the expense of increased setup time, of course, but that’s to be expected. Thus far I’m quite pleased with it.