It’s been 4 years since I made the last updates to my website and all the time I was asking myself the wrong questions.
How do I take what I had on my old sites (versions 1-10) and present it all in a new way? How could I manage all of the files more easily? How should it look?
First I thought using a CMS would help me get the content managed in a better way, but then I thought… what content?
Versions 1 – 3 were very experimental since I was trying to find out what can and cannot be done with a personal website. Four to seven were extremely graphical concepts, and very hard to navigate (but at least they looked awesome). 8 was the version that I’ve been using since 2001 while 9 and 10 never made it to a finite state.
I had a look at various CMS products like typo, joomla, drupal, etc. but they all target sites with much more to show than I will ever have. This site needed something more simple! Something I can maintain while I’m not at work… which is mostly while I’m sleeping.
So I finally went for WordPress, canned all the graphics (found this great text-only theme by Julian Klewes), and will hopefully give you some usable content about stuff I learned from working with my customers and other interesting developments.