Changes, big and bigger

After years of using MovableType to manage the site’s content, I have finally made the jump to WordPress! MovableType, while very customizable, was always getting in the way of my creativity and never very easy to work with when I needed to make changes to the look or structure of the site. WordPress was an instant winner, in my eyes, and I finally found the time (not to mention courage) to take on the task of moving the entire site. I now use it to manage every page on the site, and while there is still a lot of work to be done until all the bugs are worked out (mostly stuff regarding permalinks), I am extremely pleased with WordPress and its powerful simplicity. I think Zeldman put it best when he said that it simply “stays out of the way.”

The other big change, one that should have been made a long time ago, is that all photos are now uploaded to Flickr and served up on the site. For years now I have battled by my lonesome with image resizing, thumbnail creation, tagging, and all the other work that it takes simply to get a photo up on the site. I am ecstatic to have Flickr now taking care of all of this for me, and there’s no doubt in my mind that this will have me posting a great deal more photos than I ever have in the past.

I have decided to update every entry to reflect my using Flickr now, not only for consistency but also because in the past I created photos with a 550 pixel width and Flickr, instead, creates an image that is 500 pixels wide. This is obviously a time-consuming process, involving finding and uploading the originals of each photograph, then changing each photo’s respective entry on the site, however I plan on having it done in the next few days.

As I said, there are a lot of small details and bugs left to work out, so don’t be surprised if things seem off in certains corners of the site. I have hundreds of photographs from my recent trip to London and Paris and simply couldn’t wait to share them, so I wanted to get the site back up as soon as I could, even if it was a little buggy still. Feel free to report anything you notice in the comments of this entry. Thanks!