❡Perspectives gained from switching CMS and redesigning the blog
SimpleLog claims to be too simple for most people, yet, after a few days using it, I don’t think it lacks anything. Posts, pages, tags, comments and Markdown is really all you need.
Markdown is a great way to mark up text when you’re writing to a blog. It’s weird, but the whole process of actually writing this into a textarea is much more enjoyable now that the markup looks good even at this point. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to anything else.
I still can’t decide wether I want links embedded in the main stream of recent entries or not. I’d need some sort of bookmarklet like the one you get from Del.icio.us to post links quickly, if this is to happen. I could perhaps find a way to import Del.icio.us links as they get posted, but that seems a bit tricky.
I keep coming back to the issue of who I should write for. Do I want as many readers as possible, or do I simply want an outlet for whatever I feel like imposing on the world? As always, it’s going to be a bit of both.
Above it all though, I’m wondering if people will get the new title.
~ 09 Apr 2007