Time to start to blog
Lately I have been thinking about what to do with my registered domains
which all obviously are named as my last name. My first intention was to involve my family and create a family website where every family member would have it’s own page and even a blog. Actually I had a website up and running which was totally empty. Unfortunately the other family members was not that interested in having their own pages and being exposed on the web. They prefer to do that themselves on Facebook which perhaps is understandable as it is more suitable for social networking.
I have over the years also thought about to start to blog but found that I did not have that much to say. Either the things that I wanted to publish would require some effort to be described in that detail that I wanted it to be. I would then halfway lose track of what I wanted to say. Also being the technical “geek” that I am I would spend a lot of time on the technical details such as choosing the correct platform for my site, templates etc. But never complete the site before losing the inspiration to write. It has always been technology before content for me.
Actually it is the same this time. My initial intent was to use Joomla as the blog platform as it is full blown CMS that could be used to more than blogging. Joomla has a lot of cool templates with a lot of effects and I have used it in some websites. I have previously only tried to use WordPress for some technical blogs (idmproffs.se, jcapsproffs.com and blog.cortego.net) and was really satisfied with how easy it was to maintain and it also have good blog editor support in my iPhone. When it comes to Joomla then it does not have native support for blogging, comments, tagging. Yes, it can be done by adding plug-ins but it is not there from the start. Then also if one want to use a remote blog editor. Yes, one can fix that. But the support for posting to multiple categories is not there and so on, and on.
Finally this weekend I found the Thesis theme from DIYthemes.com and decided that it was the way forward. This theme has a lot customization options which could be useful in the future. I really like that it is more of a framework which then can be extended and supported for a long time. My aim is to start to use Thesis theme in its basic layout and allow the site to grow with new features and look over time. Hopefully one day I will finally be satisfied with looks & feel of the site. In the mean-time I can start to blog and post some content. It should be content before technology, at least for now.
My native language is Swedish but I will nevertheless try to blog in English.
