Posts Tagged ‘web tool’

Revamping my website

September 7th, 2009

After debating over this move for a couple of months, I finally migrated my website from Drupal to Wordpress, with the help of the migration SQL code from Mike Smullin. Though I loved Drupal and spent a significant amount of time and effort in building out my site, I had to say farewell to Drupal for the following reasons:

1. Wordpress has a more standard and supported blog platform. What pushed me over was that LinkedIn allowed me to content sync’ing with a Wordpress site.

2. Upgrading is much easier with Wordpress. This is my second biggest reason because I really don’t have the time to maintain the site.

3. Theming is easier with Wordpress as well.

4. Though Drupal provides much finer ACL, I really do not need that since I am just running this one-man site.

5. My Drupal deteriorated by itself rather quickly without me maintaining the site and code. The Wordpress site that I maintained for other friends did not do that. Well, at least, they would warn me to upgrade when I logged into the backend.

So, there you have it. I am parting way with Drupal. And hopefully, I can focus on the content from now on.

Another blogging tool

October 17th, 2008

While Windows Live Writer has served the purpose of offline blogging fairly well, I recently discovered ScribeFire, which works fairly well with my Drupal site. One big disadvantage, as others have pointed out, is that its tagging function does not work yet. I hope the ScribeFire team will fix this soon. Another disadvantage is that selected pictures do not show up on the blog. Else, I am quite satisfied with it because I don’t need to open up another application.