Seriously, you’d think I’d be better at regular updates by now…

but appar­ently I’m not. I’ve actu­ally had “update web­site” on my to-do list for the last three or four weeks. In the past week it’s actu­ally been upgraded to “update web­site PLEASE” and “for the love of EVERYTHING, UPDATE WEBSITE ALREADY”. I’m starting to sus­pect it might be easier to switch over from my custom-built Ruby on Rails pow­ered site to a cus­tomized Word­Press site, which could easily handle every­thing my RoR is doing with a much easier-to-use backend (not that man­u­ally editing data­base fields isn’t easy).

I’ve been using Word­Press for every­thing lately, and have totally fallen in love with it. I seem to always be a little behind the curve on web trends (as a side note, I’m now on Twitter, though I still don’t really under­stand the point entirely) due to my gen­eral dis­taste for trends (if everyone likes it, it can’t pos­sibly be any good, right?). But I really wish I’d dis­cov­ered the power and flex­i­bility of Word­Press ear­lier on—it’s bril­liant and I’m begin­ning to use it for more and more of my client projects.

I was first intro­duced to it ear­lier in the summer when I did a web­site and serial novel page for Lilith Saint­crow. I used it for another Orbit Books author web­site, Brent Weeks. Most recently, I’ve used a highly cus­tomized ver­sion for a com­mu­nity web­site for Maple­wood on the Lakes. I’m devel­oping a few more sites using it, and have dis­cov­ered that, gen­er­ally speaking, it’s actu­ally much faster, sim­pler, and more pow­erful that cre­ating my own cus­tomized admin­is­tra­tion panel (though I’m still doing this for more com­plex database-driven websites).

In non-Wordpress related news, I’ve also added the design work I did for Sebastien’s Bistro, and the iden­tity mate­rials devel­oped for the Walker Inn.

And that’s all the updates for now! I’m going to keep trying to make my updates happen on a reg­ular basis, but I’m like the chef who comes home and eats frozen din­ners (and I’ve met a few) in this case.

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