A new beginning
Posted on November 23, 2001 @ 12:03 in General
First post on the new system!
Well, it took me quite a bit of fiddling, but the New and Improved Blog is up and running, and looking pretty spiffy! I decided to change from Fahim Farook's client side only Blog (thanks a million for that great little program Fahim, I'm sure eventually the client-server version of Blog will pan out just as good as, if not better than this) to Noah Grey's fabutastic Greymatter.
Greymatter is a Perl program that runs on your server and acts just like, for instance, Blogger.com does. The reason I first went for Fahim's Blog is that I wanted to keep full control over the datafiles I'm generating: I don't want them to sit on some company's server where, for various reasons, I might end up not having access to them. The downside of Blog was that you could only blog from your own computer. Greymatter on the other hand runs on my own webserver, is fully freeware and let's me have all the control over looks and datafiles as I want. Plus, it lets me blog from wherever I have access to a webbrowser. So, if you're not afraid to muck about a bit with installing Greymatter on your server and fiddling with HTML templates, then I can heartily advise Greymatter!
I've also spiffed up the look and feel of the site. Well, at least the frontpage with the blog on it. Later I'll be working on bringing the rest of the site up to the new look, but for now you'll have to deal with some incongruencies throughout the site. Sorry, but I just don't have the time now to redo all those HTML pages. Hmm... I really should have a look at PHP, MySQL and dynamically building pages with templates, because now that I have mucked about with Greymatter, I can see that the initial investment in time will definitely pay for itself.
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