Moving Right Along…

I’m hopelessly addicted to changing the look and feel of my website! Since I purchased the domain name, wavethenavel.com, I believe it has undergone 12 different facelifts. Hey, I must say that it gives me good practice! If anyone out there has been looking at the HTML code through all the different versions, you would notice how much my web skills have improved! I’m on a CSS kick right now. :-) DOWN WITH HTML TABLES!!!

But seriously, I’ve decided to dump www.blogger.com as my blog service provider. I can’t complain about it at all, though. They do a great job. Unfortunately, wavethenavel.com has outgrown what Blogger could provide. I’ve been working on a new website “content engine” for a friend of mine and decided to use wavethenavel as my debugging/usability testing ground.

What does all this techno-babble mean to you, the reader of my blog? Well for one, it gives me an excuse to do another face lift of the site. And, two, I am going to port the 40 or so entries from my Blogger account to my new “content engine” that I am installing on this site. Pardon the dust. If you’re looking for a past entry and can’t find it, it’s probably because I haven’t gotten to it yet.

Once the process is complete, I’ll be able to better organize the archive of old posts and give more advanced searching capabilities. I’m looking forward to it!

Update! (12-4-2004)
Well, I’ve abandoned using my homebrew content management system in favor of this sweet blogging tool, Wordpress. It’s a sweet little piece of free, community developed software that I didn’t want to spend my time trying to match. Why reinvent the wheel, eh? We’re still going to put the content management system I’m designing to use, but it wasn’t meant to be a blogging tool with full comment, pingback, trackback, external publishing ability and the like. Three cheers for open source software!