Putting together a website has been kicking around in my mind for a while now. I spend a lot of time in my day job messing around with websites, so I haven’t been super-keen to devote a great deal of my time away from the office doing much the same thing.
So, what I wanted was something:
- simple yet flexible
- extensible
- easy to tie in with other services
- easy to export to a new system when I’m ready to spend some more time on development
I poked around a bit with the free CMSs, but decided in the end to put something together in WordPress, which has the solid advantage of being really heavily developed for, with plugins for everything from automated metadata generation to search. It also allows for easy tagging of content which, given that metadata is my life*, seemed important…
It’s not completely straightforward to develop a website using WordPress as it is first and foremost a blogging tool, but with the help of a tutorial or two and by dredging up some of the PHP knowledge lurking in my brain, I’ve managed to build something in a very short time that should be fairly easy to modify and upgrade when I can.
*Not true. Well, maybe a little bit.
