AndyCrawford.info

New site in development… Again.

I’ve tried a few mechanisms for modern web development recently.  Including my most previous post about my development of a Apple MobileMe service site developed in iWeb.  While I like iWeb for some people, I still find it very immature.  It does have one thing I really like, integration with services, nice integrated syndication on a more controlled development platform, and nice podcast integration.  It features integration with MobileMe galleries, among the many integrated MobileMe and Apple echosphere features on that platform.

I have found it to still not suit my needs.  I think my current platform here, Wordpress, has a use for many platforms, and I deploy still and will likely continue to use it for many uses.  It has just fell down as I wanted to expand it’s features.  I am also increasingly concerned about it’s security.  Not so much that I concern myself with being hacked, but that I don’t want to spend the time fixing things.

Most importantly, I’m looking to develop a new site that lets me do things I’ve always wanted to do.  Integration with my currently being planned podcast.  And I really want a single platform, that lets me have a few blog streams on it.  So I can have a personal blog, that I share with my family and friends.  A professional blog, with news and links to new things related to my IT career.  And allow for a place to view a thread of all my blogs in one thread, including RSS from Twitter and other such services, while allowing people to only keep up with the parts of my life they may have interest in.

So, I’m developing a new site.  It is currently unavailable publicly, but it will soon be available at www.andycrawford.me and later this URL, www.andycrawford.info will be pointed there as well.  I had originally thought I would move my couple year history of posts from here to my new site, but I now think I’ll take this opportunity to start completely a new.  Much of the content, as my Resume, photo galleries, and personal contact info will be implemented on the new site in much the same way.  But the posts will likely not be brought over to the new site.

Expect great new things from me with this project.  A much newer site design with user accounts, and a working comment system.  A site I can and will update much more often.  A place I display professional and personal information and keep that sensitive to the people that are interested in particular parts of my life.

This first serious blog of mine has been a moderate success, and has taught me much about what I want to do with it, but expect much more from my new site as it comes available.

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