I have always been against using someone else’s code for my personal site. I told myself it made more sense to design everything from scratch, programming and all, so that I’d be able to easily add new features while having a clear understanding of how everything works. I thought it made more sense to do all the programming myself because I would gain valuable programming experience in the process. Well, gaining experience to create this site from scratch also means I end up rewriting previous programming code to implement new features. This puts me in an endless loop of redoing the site over and over. I have come across dozens of different free blogging applications in the past, but they were either too bloated or didn’t contain the flexibility I was looking for.

Well today I found what I’ve been looking for. It’s called WordPress. It uses the exact two things I was planning to use for my blogging software: PHP and MySQL. What makes WordPress perfect for my site is that the features are setup almost exactly the way I planned for my site. This makes programming new features in building onto the site a breeze. All of the software is Open Source, so it’s licensed under the GPL. This means that I can freely add, delete, and modify to my heart’s content, any part of this software.

OK, enough justification. I just wanted to announce that I’ve finally given in to using blogging software that has been prewritten. I will still be working on new features to add to the site, as well as designing new themes to keep things looking fresh. Most importantly, you can look forward to a lot of new content and more frequent blog posts. Please feel free to post comments using the commenting feature.