Backspaces

Well, once again, I’m changing to a new web technology:

• First it was just HTML .. crafted by Netscape!  Remember the great HTML editor available in the Netscape browser?
• Next I converted to Textpattern, a brilliant CMS/Blog engine.
• Finally, because the  Santa Fe Complex is using WordPress, I’m converting to using it.

This is not because I dislike Textpattern.  Indeed, I believe it to be the best blog/CMS combination I’ve seen.  Extraordinarily sophisticated.

But we, our 501c3 non-profit, chose WordPress for our site due to its huge popularity.  We have several professional web designers on our webteam who have extensive experience with WordPress.

So I decided to convert my website to WP so that I could better understand what we are doing.

The current page as of Thursday, September 3, 2009 is simply WP Classic (not Kubrick!) with my old site’s CSS.  It’ll change quite a bit over time as I begin to better understand WP.

Why Classic and not Kubrick?  Here’s a hint: try running

grep ‘{‘ style.css | wc

.. in both the themes.  Here’s what you’ll see:

wordpress/wp-content/themes/classic:  60     190    1102
wordpress/wp-content/themes/default: 130     458    2683

More than double the CSS for Default/Kubrick.  No brainer.

Hi folks. This is a redesign of my website using modern xhtml/css design techniques, and with the Textpattern site management system. Check out the about page for more information.

First pass, the site is using a blog-like article structure, each entry pointing to a page that existed on the initial site.

Here’s the earlier index page to the old site. I’ll keep it about while the site’s under construction. Here’s the same page imported into textpattern