Still As Life

The new development blog for TerraMedia, dev.terramedia is now online. Of course it is only new and is something I've only been working on for the past few days so it doesn't have a great deal on it yet, and nowhere near as much as I would ideally like, but it will get there. It may still have a few bugs here and there that need to be ironed out, but as it stands, it is ready to be live, after all, it is about development in regards to TerraMedia and so on.

As I have been using WordPress.org for some of my newer content managed websites, I have decided to use it for dev.terramedia as well. The reason for this is based on a couple of things.

1. First and foremost, I love the latest version of WordPress.
   
2. In my opinion it rivals systems like Joomla! as far as simple content management goes. Of course more complicated things may need the functionality Joomla! has over WordPress, but when that's not needed, I think WordPress is great!
3. It is only logical that I provide a working showcase of one of the system's I recommend using and demonstrate it in one of my own websites.
4. I didn't want the Blogger brand on my development blog. As great as Blogger is, you have to keep the Blogger button on it somewhere.
5. I wanted the extra control I have over the source in WordPress, not that I have any intention of modifying the source at this stage, but I like the extra control I have.
6. I am considering transferring the main TerraMedia website over to WordPress instead of Joomla! and would like to use dev.terramedia as a way to facilitate that change.
   

That's about it really. Nothing high and mighty about it, I just feel that for what it is and for what I need it for, it surpasses everything else.

Labels: code, design, internet, software