New backend

Well, this website and its blog may only be a week or so old, but I have been meaning to ‘play’ with the blogging software WordPress for a while now. So before this site had too many posts I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to give it a go. So far I have been impressed.

WordPress WordPress calls itself a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. Quite a mouthful and all very modern, proving that just becasue we live ‘out in the sticks’ we aren’t luddites. It is scripted in PHP and has a MySQL database backend which are my preferred website development technologies, so it didn’t take me too long to get my head around it. However, the documentation provided by WordPress is some of the best I have seen and even a beginner should be able to figure it out without too much difficulty. The system itself seems robust and feature rich and from a developers point of view it is a joy to work with.

I haven’t concentrated solely on the backend though as I have also redesigned the front end with a new CSS template which I hope you like. I shall be continuing to experiment with various aspects of WordPress and may add some new features in the future. However for a while I think we should now concentrate on the content and decide exactly what the purpose of this weblog is!!

On a completely different note, I do seem have finally shaken the cold that has been holding me back for the past week or so.Building Online Communities with Drupal, PhpBB, and WordPress

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Alan Cole

Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.