I suppose this is the official launch of my 365 Project. In case your wondering, a 365 project is when a person makes a daily installment for one year for something… in my case, it’s photography. I started this project as a concerted effort to improve my photography composition so I set a constraint on myself: my mobile phone which is an el-cheapo Nokia 2730 classic. This guy has a fixed focal length lens and virtually no post-processing  capabilities built into the phone, so what you see is what you get. I also opted to post only from the phone such that I won’t be tempted to post-process on a computer. I hope these constraints force me to think creatively about the composition of the image. The image quality isn’t the best in the world, but I suppose it’s good enough. So browse over to 365.blaize.net to take a look. I also syndicate it on Facebook.

365 Project

WordPress

A little over a year ago, I decided to concentrate my blogging efforts on photography after not successfully being able to blog about anything else. I opted to go with WordPress as a blogging platform, because WordPress was created to be elegant and powerful out of the box, has a huge user community, and has high levels of customization. All these features make it an attractive platform.

My intended use for WordPress, as stated,  is photography, particularly photoblogging. Photoblogging is, as the portmanteau suggests, a blog that focuses on photos rather than written content. Typically, photobloggers will post photos on a periodic bases in the same manner a blogger posts articles, and the software manages comments etc. There are highly specialized software packages that are specifically tailored for photoblogging such as PixelPost, but I wanted to maintain some aspects of a traditional blog yet do photoblogging too. WordPress has specialized themes for photoblogging, so it can be photoblog only.

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I’ve made some minor changes to the blog…mostly just some tweaks.

• Dumped the Twitter feed…I’m not really into micro-blogging, and it was messing up search engine crawls too.
• Added a Contact page. Now you can spam me.
• Prettied up the tag cloud, and made it work better with Internet Explorer.
• Did some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) stuff…hopefully I’ll show up in more searches. If you link to me, it helps…

I changed it. That’s what happened. I’ve been using Joomla as a backend for quite some time, and Joomla is great, no doubt, but it seems that Joomla has outgrown me, so I went for something a little smaller, namely WordPress. I plan to keep my old site up for posterity sake at http://www.blaize.net/cms …