Some time towards the end of last year I decided to trasform my business site into a strictly business site and separate the articles into a blog. So I registered this name and thought about doing it.
Other things got in the way and it never seemed to get done.
But two things spurred me into action. First my business site Midnight Software got broken – I don’t know how, and it doesn’t really seem to matter anymore. One day it was working, and the next I got PHP error messages. And I don’t know why.
The second thing is that I was asked to build a blog site for someone else. And I thought that if I am going to build one for them then I may as well build my own. And so I have.
Most of the articles from Midnight Software have been moved here. The Midnight Software site has not been fixed, rather I have replaced it with an old version using static html.
This means that there are some links on the midnight software site that don’t work, but I hope very few, and I will go through those soon and fix them. There are also some links here that are likely to be broken because the site structure on this blog is different from the old structure. I will fix those in the coming days. There are also a few things which are incomplete at the moment.
This site uses WordPress which I think is probably the best blogging software available. It helps if you know a bit of PHP, or at least are comfortable with monkey-tail programming languages – that is, any language which uses { and }, like C or Java, or PHP. But you don’t need to know much, just enough to understand what the different templates are doing. A knowledge of HTML and CSS is also invaluable.
What about the old site? Well I am unlikely to leave it as it is. Even though it is now likely to remain much more static than in the past I don’t think I want it to remain a static, purely HTML site. I am likely to move to a Content Management System (CMS) once again.
Previously I used Xaraya, and I am more than happy with it. I have recommended it to clients, and I will continue to do so. But it might be a bit big for my needs. There is also the possibility that I will try out another CMS. Drupal is one that I have wanted to use, but the latest version requires PHP version 5, and I am only using 4.3 here. So I am unsure.
The other possibility is to build my own, and that is certainly tempting.
More on this when I make a decision.