I have decided to move my blog from Google’s Blogspot. I am not unhappy with their site or ser­vice. Blogspot pro­vides a very easy way to set up and pub­lish a blog. They pro­vide users the oppor­tu­nity to cus­tomize the blog tem­plate, and there are a number of web­sites that pro­vide attrac­tive, free tem­plates for blogs. How­ever, as a web designer, I feel oblig­ated to have a more per­sonal blog. Blogspot is a great resource for people who do not have the resources or the skills to manage their own blog soft­ware. I pos­sess these things – or rather, I should.

As such, I have decided to deploy Word­Press on my per­sonal web­site. Word­Press is a very pop­ular blog­ging and web pub­lishing system. The com­pany I work for pro­duces blogs and com­plete web­sites for cus­tomers using Word­Press as it is rel­a­tively easy to work with and pro­vides ade­quate con­tent man­age­ment fea­tures for small web­sites. The soft­ware is well sup­ported and has matured. I am writing this post right now in Word­Press and am impressed by how nice the admin­is­tra­tive inter­face looks and functions.

By man­aging my own Word­Press instal­la­tion, I hope to be able to pub­lish a better blog. I also hope to learn more about the soft­ware so that I can more capably serve clients in the future. This should be an inter­esting project.