I’ve finally killed my old site and moved the content into WordPress and Smugmug.

I wrote the content engine for the previous site about 8 years ago because I didn’t like any of the existing content engines at the time. Over the years, I added functionality (photos came in 2002, YouTube in 2007, etc), but I never had the time to improve it as much as I wanted. At the same time, content engines such as WordPress evolved to something much better than anything I could write on my own. Photo sharing sites, practically non-existent in 2002, have also evolved to be much better than anything I have time to write. Because WordPress and SmugMug allow a lot of customization, I can still tweak things, but I no longer have to start from scratch when adding new functionality.

Things that still to be done on the new site:

• Choose a better theme, and tweak it as needed
• Add search, SmugMug, and weather widgets
• Go through available WordPress plugins and install the ones I like need
• Update my blogroll with the sites I read