Plans for jehpin.com
- Filed under: Photo Diary
- Date: Mar 28,2007
Dear Diary,
I have lots of ideas for my domain, and I’ve tested many platforms to see which is the most suitable. I’ve tried Drupal CMS but found it too complicated (too much manual coding to do). Blogger too, but thought the lack of an out of the box category and static pages feature is too costly for my plans. I also wanted to display my photos, personal and those of violins on this website. For this I tried Google Picasa Web albums, which at first seemed like the perfect solution when combined with Blogger and my PC’s version of Picasa, and of course Gmail too. But later I found I needed to display the available inventory of my violins on this site, and there’s no easy way for me to display them on Blogger, except to point to a Picasa Web Album folder.
So….. I am settling now on this combination:
- Using Wordpress to display my diary of work and play using the chrono blog;
- Wordpress to display my travelogues using the static pages;
- Wordpress static pages to pull an RSS feed of the latest violins from Flickr;
- Using Wordpress chrono blog to chart progress at my violin workshop;
The good thing about Wordpress is the ability to integrate any PHP coding into any portions of my website. This makes customising a useful start page possible in future as the website grows (although some coding is necessary). The availability of PHP also opens the website to many possibilities due to the many open source scripts available. For this I’m thankful. Ok. I think that’s all… any further I may run the risk of being branded as a nerd.
