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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.01.09

So it's decided: out of ten content management systems that I've looked at, WordPress turned out to be the one that best met our needs. I looked at just about everything (within reason) and was amazed to find that among the contenders there were two whose installaton procedures failed, badly enough that I couldn't debug them in the time I was willing to invest. Three others didn't have anything like the flexibility we needed to create "all of" a twenty-page website, and one had such a tortuous interface that our communications person couldn't come to grips with it. There was also one contender that had such a large installation package that I could see from the start the whole thing would be unworkable.

I managed to port our existing corporate website (written in flat HTML files, like it was 1995) to the new system in about two-three hours. That's including time to render the layout and design, and to include the third-party design and functionality package we're using (Twitter's Bootstrap).

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov