You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
I converted both newburyportion and nerd to WordPress this weekend. Everything went almost flawlessly.
I’m really excited about some of the new features I’m able to take advantage of, however, the permalinks aren’t quite as nice as the ones I had with MovableType, and the post editing process is a little weird when you add MarkDown.
I [...]
I think this is ironic:
Notice: It says “Windows” not “Macintosh” on the label.
Have you ever heard of spyware for the Mac?
Now that I’ve decided to switch to WordPress (yes, Josh, I know you’re so happy), I need to figure out how I’m going to organise the site.
Currently, newburyportion is set up as three separate weblogs using Movable Type: the journal, nerd, and our photography site. This was made necessary by limitations of Movable Type, but [...]
Well that was easy. Really. And now it uses MarkDown too. It seems that not all the information on either of the Internets is entirely up to date.
Turning on MarkDown was simplicity itself.
Now I need to figure out how to handle the three sections that comprise newburyportion.com: journal, nerd, and photography.
And design a non-sucky template.
I’m [...]
I need a better content management system than Movable Type. I’ve written about this before (Movable Type Feels Stagnant and What’s Wrong With Movable Type).
I downloaded a copy of TextPattern (developed by the guys from TextDrive — my hosting company. But TextPattern doesn’t seem to be able to handle the permanent URLs I’ve been using [...]