Friday, March 12, 2010
A successful blog is more than just design. But you knew that already, right? As someone who’s not only been blogging since 2001 but who’s also been designing/developing blogs for nearly just as long, it’s been fascinating to observe how unbalanced blogging strategies can be when it comes to being successful.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Knowing that I had recently upgraded my blog, one of my readers wrote to ask, “You wrote a post a year ago or so, providing an overview of your then-current blogging tools. Has anything changed in the last year? What tools are you using now?” Rather than replying to him individually, I thought I would post my answer here.
The biggest change is that I have converted from TypePad to WordPress. I faithfully used TypePad for a number of years. It served me well. But several friends had converted to WordPress and encouraged me to consider it. I researched it over the Christmas holidays and then started searching for someone to help me with the conversion. I eventually stumbled upon John Saddington, who is both a web designer and programmer. He proved to be a God-send.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
My web designer, John Saddington (a.k.a. @human3rror), has spent the last week porting my blog from TypePad (my previous blogging platform) to WordPress. This has been a big project—much bigger than I expected. I only wished I had started with WordPress when I began blogging several years ago.

You’ll notice several changes: