March 13th, 2006

It’s time for that monthly update of what’s going on in my little ol life. Work is going well, and that’s pretty rare for me. I always seem to find some­thing wrong with where I work or how things are being done and start look­ing for a way out. But so far, that’s not the case here. I hon­estly think that it’s the fact that things change so much here. That can be a good thing and a bad thing, to be sure, but it seems to keep the job inter­est­ing.
I do wish I could spend more time doing design work vs. upkeep of cur­rent sites, but you can’t have every­thing you want.

Another thing you most likey don’t even notice is that I have switched con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems. DanielAndrews.com is now run­ning on word­press, rather than mov­able type. I found con­stant rebuild­ing to be a hassle, and was going to actu­ally switch to textpat­tern months ago, but decided to go with word­press, as I’m fairly com­fort­able using it already. For you, this won’t really look or feel any dif­fer­ent, but updat­ing pages will be a lot easier for me, and the stress on a server having to rebuild thou­sands of pages will be min­i­mized as well. I’ll be moving the There are some css issues i need to hammer out (mainly the com­ments) so bear with me while i make the switch. Also, I’m sure there will be broken links aplenty. Sorry in advance.

If you are sub­scrib­ing to my RSS feed, the new URL is http://​www.​danielandrews.​com/​b​l​o​g​/feed/.

If anyone still comes to this page from wtm​cgee.com, be advised that the domain expires soon and I may not be renew­ing it. Also expect a new layout in the coming month, if I can find the spare time for it.

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7 Responses to “March Notes and News”

1. Ian Adams says:
   March 15th, 2006 at 4:18 pm

   Man, it seems like every­body is moving to Word­Press. Aside from “already being familiar” with Word­Press, why did you choose it over TextPat­tern? Pre­sum­ably you were famil­iar with that as well.
2. Daniel says:
   March 15th, 2006 at 4:28 pm

   Hey Ian -

   I was famil­iar with both, but ulti­mately I found it easier to manage and a lot faster to imple­ment versus textpat­tern.

   I have set up textpat­tern for some clients who needed a basic CMS, but I always found some sort of kink making it a little tough to catch onto com­pletely. Wordpress’ install is seamelss, and I’m fairly com­fort­able with the php tem­plate style that word­press uses. I also love the pre­view fea­ture in the word­press com­pose window.

   Hon­estly, both are great prod­ucts, and mov­able type is as well. I just got sick of the rebuild­ing aspect of it, and updates in word­press are imme­di­ate.

   I really dig your site, by the way.
3. Liz says:
   March 16th, 2006 at 8:55 am

   All this web mumbo jumbo means noth­ing to me… But, how did I now know about any Lady Sit­u­a­tion?? Also, I have some­thing for you, actu­ally for your dad, and his col­lec­tion.
4. Daniel says:
   March 16th, 2006 at 5:14 pm

   Liz -how’s your site coming along? A liz-​blog would be amaz­ing.

   Oh no! I bet this is gonna be awe­some.

   As far as the woman thing … I guess I’m just mys­te­ri­ous.
5. Ian Adams says:
   March 16th, 2006 at 5:37 pm

   Daniel -

   Thanks! :) I’m actu­ally work­ing on a redesign of it that’s coming along pretty well. I should be able to unveil it in a couple weeks. Obvi­ously, I dig your site as well. (oth­er­wise I wouldn’t be vis­it­ing it all the time. ;))

   For AWG I’m going to stick with doing it by hand for now. But I’ve been look­ing into the var­i­ous CMS soft­ware out there, which I plan on using for my other sites, once I get their con­tent fin­ished. Every­thing I’m read­ing, your post included, makes it sound like Word­Press is the way to go.
6. Lynn says:
   March 28th, 2006 at 8:38 pm

   Hi Daniel,

   Stum­bled onto your site while doing a google images search for an iMac on a desk for a project I’m work­ing on. Very nice designs you’ve done. I’m impressed. Learned a little from your site already. I’m an self-​taught web designer, learn­ing as I go and doing mostly sites for small startup com­pa­nies in my spare time. I also manage our web­site at my full-​time job.
7. D'Juan says:
   April 1st, 2006 at 1:53 pm

   Awe­some to see the change with­out notic­ing the CMS change!

   It’s good to hear that you have a young lady to hang out with! If only I could change that for myself… Other than that, life here in FL is doing pretty well. Just trying to keep out of trou­ble (as if that’s hard to do - i rarely get out as it is).

   Talk to you later, man.