Andrew Watson

Blogging Part III – more…

Posted on 06. May, 2006 by Andrew Watson in Personal, Web Standards

This blog (experiment part II for me) is here for a couple of reasons…

• Having run a number of blogs through blogger (http://creativecog.blogspot.com/)  and myspace (http://www.myspace.com/creativecog)… I now have a greater understanding of blogs and what to use them for
• Due to advances I have made, in understand CSS techniques and standards compliant web development…

…and is where I take an element of control back from blogger and myspace, in running, publishing and customising my blog as I, and I alone choose fit.

So how am I doing that ?

Well having explored a number of content management / publishing packages (http://drupal.org/ and a few others that I’ll list when I can remember them)… I was getting to the stage where I was going to start from scratch and write my own blog software. They were a good technical base, but so many seemed to be incomplete and buggy when it came to the design and CSS. Whilst I understand the difficulties of writing compliant code that operates across all browsers… that is really where everyone who develops professionally for the web should be striving to get… and frankly I am not sure why people develop half baked themes for packages like Drupal.

With 7 years experience building a huge variety of LAMP systems, I have the technical skills (www.kookaburra.biz)… and with greater understanding of CSS and standards compliant design techniques (having just completed www.oakhamcricketclub.co.uk)… I now feel more comfortable with design skills… but then I came across WordPress… and everything to date has impressed me… so here I am… back in control of my blog…