A blog(ish)? Yeap, not a real, proper, blog engine run blog. Just a simple DIY version pretending to be a blog.
A luddite manual version, with basic html, tables, and email comment. I tried, I really did, to run a
Wordpress
blog, but my coding skills are limited. I may be able to change some obvious text, or insert some script by following instructions, though when it
comes to fixing anything in php or CSS, I am lost. Life is too short to learn all that. Well, maybe in time, but I have content to create.
The website is a means to an end; convey information. I get by reasonably well. Its the 80-20 principle. I get 80% results with only 20% knowledge,
probably even less. Now comes the point of diminishing returns. I am not earning my crust with creating websites, I'm not a web developer.
Anyway, there were other things I did not get on with, so here I am, back at my trusted old website. But I like some aspects of blogs, and I know visitors do too.
New content is up top, you can check it out, or move on. Blogs are interactive. They are the water cooler area, somewhere to hang out and chat, talk shop.
Some of the cool stuff about blogs is something I have not yet figured out how to include (I am investigating
FeedBurner for RSS ), if at all possible, so there are some
short comings. If you want to comment you have to send me an email, though I made it as easy as possible, its just not immediate, and I know some of you don't
like to give out your address, but rest assured, it is safe with me, and unless given in the body of the message because you want it to be public, I do
not publish it. If I can't get RSS to work on this site, the only option is to bookmark it, and check out the updates.
On the bright side, I think a simple website is less code heavy, quicker to download, and I try to make it easy to navigate, and blend as
many of the advantages of each as possible. The overall experience should not be too different to a 'normal' blog, with some of the advantages of a 'static' site.
So cheers, here is to blogg(ish)ing, eh, whatever.
