About those New Year's Irresolutions

[hrj]

I don't seem to have posting any official New Year's Irresolutions last year, but a perennial one has been "put more new content on the web site". I seem to be succeeding at that with a vengeance during this vacation, although it's all material that appeared first in LJ: the babyname blogging, the "How Tall was St. Louis and Who was Wearing his Shirt?" analysis, and the SCA cross-dressing essay. Still, new content is new content.

I keep thinking that my next task there should be an easily accessible comprehensive index to the content (rather than the "please come and wander around through the rooms" set-up that it currently has). On the other hand, scotica has been pushing me to bring my content management into the 21st century and join the Drupal bandwagon, which might make more sense as a next step.

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[green-knight.livejournal.com]

You might consider using Wordpress as a content management system. I've had a brief look at Drupal, and it seems to have a much steeper learning curve for not much more usefulness, at least on the casual user level. Drupal users seem to spend a lot of time learning and tweaking Drupal, which seems like the modern incarnation of the 'build your own PC and make sure all parts talk to each other' thing: I like mine to come out of the box and work.

(Wordpress is impressive because it's PHP/SQL based - you can see what's happening, you can tweak it if you want, but much of the time someone else has already done the work for you.