It took about a week in all. Late nights, coffee, excitement, frustration and finally happiness. My new site! It might not seem like much, but that’s the idea. I wanted something insanely easy to maintain, light, modular, flexible, and friendly. I found it in Indexhibit and WordPress. I also wanted something simple and understated. I’m not really into making the latest gee-whiz site with super-duper technical and visual fireworks. It’s not really my style. I don’t like hollering. I wanted a site that was cleaner, leaner, and allowed the actual work being displayed to come to the forefront.

Also, the previous CMS I was using worked fine, but was a total nightmare when it came to blogging and allowing comments. And really, what use is blogging if people can’t participate? Also, when it came to displaying my work, I couldn’t find an application that suited me. The developer community was robust, but if you wanted something that really worked well, you usually had to pay for it. After looking around, I found that WordPress and Indexhibit was a great solution and a total upgrade for me.

Indexhibit gives me a lot of options when it comes to displaying my work, and also gives me plenty of options for adding image titles, captions, and descriptions of my projects. It also serves as an archive, which is icing on the cake.

As far as migrating all of my old posts, well, let’s say that trying to transfer the contents of my un-named old CMS database to my WordPress database is like trying to canoe the Snake River after spring thaw. I might try it, but don’t expect it to be pretty. I am going to try to bring over some of my favorite old posts, but it’s not a priority right now.

But overall, I’m stoked.

So take a look around, and let me know your thoughts. There will be some small changes over the coming days ahead, and I’d like to hear from you. By the way, if any of you are browsing this site using IE 7, let me know how it’s working.