New Design and No More Wordpress
Dec 22 2009
I decided to update this site with a new design and get rid of Wordpress. I had been using the Simpla theme but it was time to get a new look. The Simpla theme was supposed to be a temporary solution until I created my own design, but it ended up lasting just over two years. I still have a few things I’d like to tweak with the current design, but it’s a start. Lets hope it doesn’t take me 2 years to get to.
The site is now just static html pages powered by Jekyll. Wordpress works for a lot of things but not my site. I spend so little time updating it that Wordpress was overkill and left me open to hackers. With a simple static html site there are no security holes to worry about patching. Another reason for using Jekyll is that it allows...
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