10/12/06

Confessions of a former ex-blogger or how I ended up here

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Back again! (And about time too!)
Finally I got my blog up and running again. Big changes in the house.

Wordpress vs Expression Engine

First and foremost I use Wordpress instead of Expression Engine as a CMS. Expression Engine is great for blogging but the power of open source, the huge community behind Wordpress and the ease of use allowing for hackability and plugin development of WP made the decision easy.

Spam

Spam bots and comment abusers where of great help too. I didn’t realize that my blog was so popular (if I’m to judge by amount of spam I was getting lately) but truth is that I couldn’t cope with that much junk. Let’s hope that the combination of WP and Akismet spam filter plugin beat the spammers this time.

Semantic markup and SEO

Semantic markup, SEO and simple CSS were also an issue. I was looking for a blog design that was optimized for search engines (SEO), easy to manage and where graphic design didn’t take precedence over contents. Derek Punsalan did a great job and all the design credit goes to him. It’s a great template that leaves room to content customization and semantic

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