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 …