I finally updated my website with standards-compliant coding and incorporated a blog using WordPress, which appears to be a really great personal content management system. I made a custom theme that’s strongly inspired by jeffcroft.com and a theme called “Hemingway” by Kyle Neath.
I love working with standards. The payoff is seeing the really organized code at the end, but that requires vigilant attention to both the big picture and every little detail.
Figuring out WordPress was not too difficult and the community spirit helped a lot. However, there are some things about WordPress that seem a little frustrating. Sometimes it was tricky for me to customize what I wanted it to do. It also puts in some code that I don’t really always want (like div ids with underscores, or other things like <li> tags and <p> tags that I would prefer to do myself). Of course these are tiny criticisms of a really outstanding product that is relatively easy to use with tons of helpful and informative resources available.
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