You may be wondering why I bothered. Well, there are a few advantages to doing this. The first is that I no longer have to rely on a third-party service (Blogger) to do my posting for me. It’s all done on my very own hosted server which I’m already paying for. And there’s something very satisfying to me about using more of the little goo-gaws and services that have been included in my hosting package and that I haven’t had an opportunity or reason to use before now. The second is that the environment itself is quite elegant compared to blogger, especially in terms of updating. In this environment, pages are created dynamically as they are requested. So not only is creating new posts much faster, but making changes to the site template is drastically faster, because the software doesn’t have to republish the entire site before the changes can be seen. This is especially good news for someone like me, who is just learning how to design in XHTML, and likes to view what happens to the site after every single little change I make. The third advantage is functionality. I now am able to categorize posts, easily create stand-alone pages, and have much more control over the content in general.

So, kick back and look around a bit, click on some links, cruise around the site and be sure to let me know if something is broken. Thanks bunches, you’re the best.