Giving In

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.

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  1. aT WORK HERE reading your old posts…

    So… I noticed a blog thing in the menu on my website panel. Is it a horrid blog setup or is it what you use? Thought it might be good to blog the house building or hunting experience…….. after I pack up all the junk in my current house.

  2. Hey DJT, I use WordPress for my blogging software. It’s really easy to install and setup. If you go to the Control Panel of your domain, you’ll see an icon called Fantastico. Click that and look under Blogs for WordPress. It will automatically install it for you. You can feel free to install the other blogging software and try those out as well. If you don’t like it, you can go back into Fantastico and choose Uninstsall. It will undo everything the install did. Hope this helps! Any other questions, send me an email at the support account for Akmai.net.