The Tree of mrcury

This might be the third version of my blog. The first wasn’t really a weblog, since I did everything manually and coded everything from scratch. Last year I developed the second version, which featured an admin section I could use to write, edit and delete entries. But that was it: no comments, no interaction, no cool scripts.

So at the end of 2005 I thought I’d wander deeper into the realm of dynamic websites and real blogs. I was looking for usable weblogs: something both I and an hypothetical reader might enjoy using. I figured that commentable posts and a renewed interface were all I needed, and started going head down in that direction.

But since I want everything to be perfect all the time and I wanted to publish a blog with SEF URLs, I just couldn’t stand that my redirects weren’t working. I couldn’t even figure out what the issue was, so I let the project sit still for a couple of moths. I eventually discovered the problem and decided to get back to work on the coding. As I finally came closer to developing a publishing platform on my own, I thought I’d give WordPress a try.

I installed it locally earlier this weekend and I fell in love with it immediately. I decided to lose all the PHP & MySQL script headaches and get my hands on some CSS: adapting the styles of the upcoming blog to the WordPress structure was quite an effort but sensibly less tiring than coding scripts for the next 10 months.

To make it short: here it is. Now you have a fully interactive, readable, commentable, subscribable, whateverable weblog: The Tree!