A Long Overdue Spring Cleaning
I was going to move this entire web site off of static HTML pages and onto something more dynamic and more modern years ago, in the spring of 2007, but only now have I gotten around to doing it. The big problem was that in order to make changes to the web sites, or even to add content as trivial as a few lines of text, it would require editing raw HTML and transferring it to the server, and sometimes creating pages or changing the structure of many pages through lots of copy-paste. It was just getting to be impossible to effectively manage the site.
I dismissed all the big content management systems like Joomla and Drupal for being too much overhead and not enough control for something as simple as a personal web site, and Wordpress, Moveable Type, and the other blogging-oriented systems were just too, well, blogging-oriented. Hence, I decided to just rebuild my site from scratch, just like the good 'ol days. Except this time I have PHP, MySQL, CSS, Python, and XHTML at my disposal.
I will port over all the content from the previous site over the next few weeks. In the meantime, welcome to my updated site. I hope you enjoy it.
